From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: inherit master link settings for representors
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:54:30 +0000 [thread overview]
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Saturday, April 27, 2019 7:20 AM¸ Viacheslav Ovsiienko:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: inherit master link settings for
> representors
>
> There are some physical link settings can be queried from Ethernet devices:
> link status, link speed, speed capabilities, duplex mode, etc. These setting do
> not make a lot of sense for representors due to missing physical link. The
> new kernel drivers dropped query for link settings for representors causing
> the ioctl call to fail. This patch adds some kind of emulation of link settings to
> PMD - representors inherit the link parameters from the master device. The
> actual link status (up/down) is retrieved from the representor device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-29 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-27 4:19 Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2019-04-27 4:19 ` Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2019-04-29 8:54 ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2019-04-29 8:54 ` Shahaf Shuler
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