On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:47:51 -0700, Dustin Byford wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Wed Jun 28 15:41, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:22:39AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 12:19:43 -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > > > > Encoding: Types of encoding > > > > Off : Turning off any encoding > > > > RS : enforcing RS-FEC encoding on supported speeds > > > > BaseR : enforcing Base R encoding on supported speeds > > > > Auto : IEEE defaults for the speed/medium combination > > > > > > Just to be sure - does auto mean autonegotiate as defined by IEEE or > > > some presets? > > > > I don't know this field very well. Is this confusion likely to happen > > a lot? Is there a better name for Auto which is less likely to be > > confused? > > You're not the first, or the second to ask that question. I agree it > could use clarification. > > I always read auto in this context as automatic rather than autoneg. > The best I can come up with is to perhaps fully spell out "automatic" in > the documentation and the associated uapi enums. It's accurate, and > hopefully different enough from "autoneg" to hint people away from the > IEEE autoneg concept.
So perhaps just "default"? Even saying something like ieee-selected doesn't really help, because apparently there are two autonegs defined - IEEE one and a "consortium" one...
