On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 06:40:24AM -0700, Marek Pazdan wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Pazdan <mpaz...@arista.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> index 147257d6a2..66aad925d0 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ struct rte_eth_stats {
> __extension__
> struct __rte_aligned(8) rte_eth_link { /**< aligned for atomic64 read/write
> */
> uint32_t link_speed; /**< RTE_ETH_SPEED_NUM_ */
> - uint16_t link_duplex : 1; /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[HALF/FULL]_DUPLEX */
> + uint16_t link_duplex : 2; /**<
> RTE_ETH_LINK_[HALF/FULL/UNKNOWN]_DUPLEX */
> uint16_t link_autoneg : 1; /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[AUTONEG/FIXED] */
> uint16_t link_status : 1; /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[DOWN/UP] */
> };
this breaks the abi. David does libabigail pick this up i wonder?
