From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 15:15:24 -0700
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:23:08 -0500, Thomas Falcon wrote: >> Reported ethtool link settings for the ibmveth driver are currently >> hardcoded and no longer reflect the actual capabilities of supported >> hardware. There is no interface designed for retrieving this information >> from device firmware nor is there any way to update current settings >> to reflect observed or expected link speeds. >> >> To avoid breaking existing configurations, retain current values as >> default settings but let users update them to match the expected >> capabilities of underlying hardware if needed. This update would >> allow the use of configurations that rely on certain link speed >> settings, such as LACP. This patch is based on the implementation >> in virtio_net. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.ibm.com> > > Looks like this is the third copy of the same code virtio and > netvsc have :( Is there a chance we could factor this out into > helpers in the core? Yeah, let's stop the duplication of code while we can. Thomas please perform the consolidation and respin. Thank you.
