On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 16/05/2017 11:39, Alejandro Lucero: > > Maybe we need another feature for detected link speed report capability. > > > > There is already support for ETH_SPEED_NUM_NONE if the speed is not > defined > > or it can not be specified by the device. Netronome has some firmwares > > without that link speed report capability, although maybe we are not the > > only ones with that problem. > > > > > > What do you think about this? > > Yes, you mean you can advertise a speed capability, > but cannot report the real negotiated speed, right? > So we could add this feature. > Perfect. > There are also virtual drivers which cannot report some real speed. > > Yes, that is right. Virtual drivers can not report speed. We have a problem with a client using pktgen which assumes a device will report the link speed always. By the way, I will send a patch for avoiding this issue with pktgen. Thanks
