Re: [PATCH v3] ethdev: add Linux ethtool link mode conversion

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>]

On 3/3/2024 9:56 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Speed capabilities of a NIC may be discovered through its Linux
> kernel driver. It is especially useful for bifurcated drivers,
> so they don't have to duplicate the same logic in the DPDK driver.
> 
> Parsing ethtool speed capabilities is made easy thanks to
> the functions added in ethdev for internal usage only.
> Of course these functions work only on Linux,
> so they are not compiled in other environments.
> 
> In order to ease parsing, the ethtool macro names are parsed
> externally in a shell command which generates a C array
> included in this patch.
> It also avoids to depend on a kernel version.
> This C array should be updated in future to get latest ethtool bits.
> Note it is easier to update this array than adding new cases
> in a parsing code.
> 
> The types in the functions are following the ethtool type:
> uint32_t for bitmaps, and int8_t for the number of 32-bitmaps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.