Hi Thomas, Information like advertising: speed, pause, autonegotiation etc. and that same for link partner advertising. I try to mimic ethtool since it's a common, well known and widely used tool so adding an API which provides the same set of information in case the interface is passthrough to dpdk will be useful I think. I've 2 more patches dependent on the one we are discussing now, but I need patchwork id to add dependency information. I need moderator approval for the current patch.
Regards, Marek On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 4:48 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > 03/04/2024 15:59, Marek Pazdan: > > There are link settings parameters available from PMD drivers level > > which are currently not exposed to the user via consistent interface. > > When interface is available for system level those information can > > be acquired with 'ethtool DEVNAME' (ioctl: ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS/ > > ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS). There are use cases where > > physical interface is passthrough to dpdk driver and is not available > > from system level. Information provided by ioctl carries information > > useful for link auto negotiation settings among others. > > Which information is missing exactly? > Why are you trying to mimic ethtool API? > > Please let's add what is missing instead of adding a full new API. > > >
