On 3/3/2024 9:56 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Speed capabilities of a NIC may be discovered through its Linux > kernel driver. It is especially useful for bifurcated drivers, > so they don't have to duplicate the same logic in the DPDK driver. > > Parsing ethtool speed capabilities is made easy thanks to > the functions added in ethdev for internal usage only. > Of course these functions work only on Linux, > so they are not compiled in other environments. > > In order to ease parsing, the ethtool macro names are parsed > externally in a shell command which generates a C array > included in this patch. > It also avoids to depend on a kernel version. > This C array should be updated in future to get latest ethtool bits. > Note it is easier to update this array than adding new cases > in a parsing code. > > The types in the functions are following the ethtool type: > uint32_t for bitmaps, and int8_t for the number of 32-bitmaps. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> >
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@amd.com> Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
