Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.
Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit 3f1ac7a700 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
deprecated the ethtool_cmd::transceiver field, which was fine in
premise, except that the PHY library was actually using it to report the
type of transceiver: internal or external.
Use the first word of the reserved field to put this __u8 transceiver
field back in. It is made read-only, and we don't expect the
ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API to be doing anything with this anyway, so this
is mostly for the legacy path where we do:
ethtool_get_settings()
-> dev->ethtool_ops->get_link_ksettings()
-> convert_link_ksettings_to_legacy_settings()
to have no information loss compared to the legacy get_settings API.
Fixes: 3f1ac7a700 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Forward Error Correction (FEC) modes i.e Base-R
and Reed-Solomon modes are introduced in 25G/40G/100G standards
for providing good BER at high speeds. Various networking devices
which support 25G/40G/100G provides ability to manage supported FEC
modes and the lack of FEC encoding control and reporting today is a
source for interoperability issues for many vendors.
FEC capability as well as specific FEC mode i.e. Base-R
or RS modes can be requested or advertised through bits D44:47 of
base link codeword.
This patch set intends to provide option under ethtool to manage
and report FEC encoding settings for networking devices as per
IEEE 802.3 bj, bm and by specs.
set-fec/show-fec option(s) are designed to provide control and
report the FEC encoding on the link.
SET FEC option:
root@tor: ethtool --set-fec swp1 encoding [off | RS | BaseR | auto]
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
Here are a few examples of what we would expect if encoding=auto:
- if autoneg is on, we are expecting FEC to be negotiated as on or off
as long as protocol supports it
- if the hardware is capable of detecting the FEC encoding on it's
receiver it will reconfigure its encoder to match
- in absence of the above, the configuration would be set to IEEE
defaults.
>From our understanding , this is essentially what most hardware/driver
combinations are doing today in the absence of a way for users to
control the behavior.
SHOW FEC option:
root@tor: ethtool --show-fec swp1
FEC parameters for swp1:
Active FEC encodings: RS
Configured FEC encodings: RS | BaseR
ETHTOOL DEVNAME output modification:
ethtool devname output:
root@tor:~# ethtool swp1
Settings for swp1:
root@hpe-7712-03:~# ethtool swp18
Settings for swp18:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 40000baseCR4/Full
40000baseSR4/Full
40000baseLR4/Full
100000baseSR4/Full
100000baseCR4/Full
100000baseLR4_ER4/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: [RS | BaseR | None | Not reported]
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: [RS | BaseR | None | Not reported]
<<<< One or more FEC modes
Speed: 100000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: FIBRE
PHYAD: 106
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
Link detected: yes
This patch includes following changes
a) New ETHTOOL_SFECPARAM/SFECPARAM API, handled by
the new get_fecparam/set_fecparam callbacks, provides support
for configuration of forward error correction modes.
b) Link mode bits for FEC modes i.e. None (No FEC mode), RS, BaseR/FC
are defined so that users can configure these fec modes for supported
and advertising fields as part of link autonegotiation.
Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar Ravipati <vidya.chowdary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dustin Byford <dustin@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Each time a new speed is added, the bonding 802.3ad isn't updated. Add a
comment to remind the developer to update this driver.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In order to let the bonding driver report the correct speed
of the underlaying interfaces, when they are IPoIB, the ethtool
function get_link_ksettings() in the IPoIB driver is implemented.
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Håkon Bugge <Haakon.Bugge@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
This patch introduce support for 2500BaseT and 5000BaseT link modes.
These modes are included in the new IEEE 802.3bz standard.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Belous <pavel.s.belous@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For operation in cabling environments that are incompatible with
1000BASE-T, PHY device may provide an automatic link speed downshift
operation. When enabled, the device automatically changes its 1000BASE-T
auto-negotiation to the next slower speed after a configured number of
failed attempts at 1000BASE-T. This feature is useful in setting up in
networks using older cable installations that include only pairs A and B,
and not pairs C and D.
Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Defines a generic API to get/set phy tunables. The API is using the
existing ethtool_tunable/tunable_type_id types which is already being used
for mac level tunables.
Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse was complaining when we went to prototype some code
using ethtool_cmd_speed_set and SPEED_100000, which uses
the upper 16 bits of __u32 speed for the first time.
CHECK
...
.../uapi/linux/ethtool.h:123:28: warning:
cast truncates bits from constant value (186a0 becomes 86a0)
The warning is actually bogus, as no bits are really lost, but
we can get rid of the sparse warning with this one small change.
Reported-by: Preethi Banala <preethi.banala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch enhances ethtool link mode bitmap to include
missing interface modes for 1G/10G speeds
Changes:
1000baseX is the mode introduced to cover all 1G Fiber cases.
All modes under 1000BaseX i.e. 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 1000BASE-LX10
and 1000BASE-BX10 are not explicitly defined at this moment.
10G CR,SR,LR and ER link modes are included for 10G speed..
Issue:
ethtool on 1G/10G SFP port reports Base-T
as this port supports 1000baseX,10G CR, SR and LR modes.
root@tor-02$ ethtool swp1
Settings for swp1:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: FIBRE
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: external
Auto-negotiation: off
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
Link detected: yes
After fix:
root@tor-02$ ethtool swp1
Settings for swp1:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 1000baseX/Full
10000baseCR/Full
10000baseSR/Full
10000baseLR/Full
10000baseER/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: FIBRE
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: external
Auto-negotiation: off
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
Link detected: yes
Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar Ravipati <vidya@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_50000baseSR2_Full_BIT bit.
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bwh@kernel.org>
Cc: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Acked-By: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch enhances ethtool link mode bitmap to include
25G/50G/100G speed along with interface modes
Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar Ravipati <vidya@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Updates: commit 793cf87de9 ("ethtool: Set cmd field in
ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS response to wrong nwords")
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
INT_MAX needs limits.h in userland.
When ethtool.h is included by a userland app, we got the following error:
.../usr/include/linux/ethtool.h: In function 'ethtool_validate_speed':
.../usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:1471:18: error: 'INT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
return speed <= INT_MAX || speed == SPEED_UNKNOWN
^
Fixes: e02564ee33 ("ethtool: make validate_speed accept all speeds between 0 and INT_MAX")
CC: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
DIV_ROUND_UP is defined in linux/kernel.h only for the kernel.
When ethtool.h is included by a userland app, we got the following error:
include/linux/ethtool.h:1218:8: error: variably modified 'queue_mask' at file scope
__u32 queue_mask[DIV_ROUND_UP(MAX_NUM_QUEUE, 32)];
^
Let's add a common definition in uapi and use it everywhere.
Fixes: ac2c7ad0e5 ("net/ethtool: introduce a new ioctl for per queue setting")
CC: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch defines a new ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS/SLINKSETTINGS API,
handled by the new get_link_ksettings/set_link_ksettings callbacks.
This API provides support for most legacy ethtool_cmd fields, adds
support for larger link mode masks (up to 4064 bits, variable length),
and removes ethtool_cmd deprecated
fields (transceiver/maxrxpkt/maxtxpkt).
This API is deprecating the legacy ETHTOOL_GSET/SSET API and provides
the following backward compatibility properties:
- legacy ethtool with legacy drivers: no change, still using the
get_settings/set_settings callbacks.
- legacy ethtool with new get/set_link_ksettings drivers: the new
driver callbacks are used, data internally converted to legacy
ethtool_cmd. ETHTOOL_GSET will return only the 1st 32b of each link
mode mask. ETHTOOL_SSET will fail if user tries to set the
ethtool_cmd deprecated fields to
non-0 (transceiver/maxrxpkt/maxtxpkt). A kernel warning is logged if
driver sets higher bits.
- future ethtool with legacy drivers: no change, still using the
get_settings/set_settings callbacks, internally converted to new data
structure. Deprecated fields (transceiver/maxrxpkt/maxtxpkt) will be
ignored and seen as 0 from user space. Note that that "future"
ethtool tool will not allow changes to these deprecated fields.
- future ethtool with new drivers: direct call to the new callbacks.
By "future" ethtool, what is meant is:
- query: first try ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS, and revert to ETHTOOL_GSET if
fails
- set: query first and remember which of ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS or
ETHTOOL_GSET was successful
+ if ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS was successful, then change config with
ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS. A failure there is final (do not try
ETHTOOL_SSET).
+ otherwise ETHTOOL_GSET was successful, change config with
ETHTOOL_SSET. A failure there is final (do not try
ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS).
The interaction user/kernel via the new API requires a small
ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS handshake first to agree on the length of the link
mode bitmaps. If kernel doesn't agree with user, it returns the bitmap
length it is expecting from user as a negative length (and cmd field is
0). When kernel and user agree, kernel returns valid info in all
fields (ie. link mode length > 0 and cmd is ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS).
Data structure crossing user/kernel boundary is 32/64-bit
agnostic. Converted internally to a legal kernel bitmap.
The internal __ethtool_get_settings kernel helper will gradually be
replaced by __ethtool_get_link_ksettings by the time the first
"link_settings" drivers start to appear. So this patch doesn't change
it, it will be removed before it needs to be changed.
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce a new ioctl ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE for per queue parameters setting.
The following patches will enable some SUB_COMMANDs for per queue
setting.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Devices these days can have any speed and as was recently pointed out
any speed from 0 to INT_MAX is valid so adjust speed validation to
accept such values.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Many virtual and not quite virtual devices allow any speed to be set
through ethtool. In particular, this applies to the virtio-net devices.
Document this fact to make sure people don't assume the enum lists all
possible values. Reserve values greater than INT_MAX for future
extension and to avoid conflict with SPEED_UNKNOWN.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add functions which check if the speed/duplex are defined.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ethernet PHYs can maintain statistics, for example errors while idle
and receive errors. Add an ethtool mechanism to retrieve these
statistics, using the same model as MAC statistics.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds some clarification about the intended way to implement
both SIOCSHWTSTAMP and ethtool's get_ts_info. The HWTSTAMP API has
several Rx filters which are very specific, as well as more general
filters. The specific filters really only exist to support some broken
hardware which can't fully implement the generic filters. This patch
adds clarification that it is okay to support the specific filters in
SIOCSHWTSTAMP by upscaling them to the generic filters. In addition,
update the header for ethtool_ts_info to specify that drivers ought to
only report the filters they support without upscaling in this manner.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Add strings array of the current supported tunable options.
Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The ring_cookie is 64 bits wide which is much larger than can be used
for actual queue index values. So provide some helper routines to
pack a VF index into the cookie. This is useful to steer packets to
a VF ring without having to know the queue layout of the device.
CC: Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Renamed the reserved1 member of struct ethtool_drvinfo to erom_version to get
expansion/option ROM version of the adapter if present.
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch extends the set/get_rxfh ethtool-options for getting or
setting the RSS hash function.
It modifies drivers implementation of set/get_rxfh accordingly.
This change also delegates the responsibility of checking whether a
modification to a certain RX flow hash parameter is supported to the
driver implementation of set_rxfh.
User-kernel API is done through the new hfunc bitmask field in the
ethtool_rxfh struct. A bit set in the hfunc field is corresponding to an
index in the new string-set ETH_SS_RSS_HASH_FUNCS.
Got approval from most of the relevant driver maintainers that their
driver is using Toeplitz, and for the few that didn't answered, also
assumed it is Toeplitz.
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@qlogic.com>
Cc: Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Cc: Subbu Seetharaman <subbu.seetharaman@emulex.com>
Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Vick <matthew.vick@intel.com>
Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Cc: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Cc: Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
Cc: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
Cc: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Cc: "VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Added 100M, 20G and 56G ethtool speed reporting support.
Update mlx4_en_test_speed self test with the new speeds.
Defined new link speeds in include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h:
+#define SPEED_20000 20000
+#define SPEED_40000 40000
+#define SPEED_56000 56000
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Added support for get_module_info/get_module_eeprom ethtool support for cable info reading.
Added new cable types enum in include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h for ethtool use.
+#define ETH_MODULE_SFF_8636 0x3
+#define ETH_MODULE_SFF_8636_LEN 256
+#define ETH_MODULE_SFF_8436 0x4
+#define ETH_MODULE_SFF_8436_LEN 256
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use new ethtool [sg]et_tunable() to set tx_copybread (inline threshold)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds new ethtool cmd, ETHTOOL_GTUNABLE & ETHTOOL_STUNABLE for getting
tunable values from driver.
Add get_tunable and set_tunable to ethtool_ops. Driver implements these
functions for getting/setting tunable value.
Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We usually allocate special values of u32 fields starting from the top
down, so also change the value to 0xffffffff. As these operations
haven't been included in a stable release yet, it's not too late to
change.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
This ethtool patch primarily copies the ioctl command data structures
from/to the User space and invokes the driver hook.
Signed-off-by: Venkat Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@Emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A colon almost unavoidably starts a new section. The script should be
changed to provide a way to avoid this, but for now reword the
comments to avoid using colons.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The kernel-doc script does not tolerate the macro definition in between.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert the inline comments to kernel-doc format.
Explicitly specify that non-zero autoneg is an error if link
autonegotiation is disabled.
Specify that pause capabilities should be advertised dependent on link
autonegotiation, not the autoneg flag here. There is no way to
opt-out of pause frame autonegotiation, and this improves behaviour
when the link partner is configured to follow pause frame
autonegotiation and our interface is not.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace the inline comments (and some others below) with a full
explanation of the semantics, in kernel-doc format. Specify which
strings may be empty. Document the relationship with other commands.
Replace the 'deprecation' of some fields with a proper explanation of
the conversion to generalised string sets, as userland programs may
not be able to assume that ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO is available.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
struct ethtool_cmd has very limited documentation; it contains
several obscure or obsolete fields and several with non-obvious
interpretation.
Replace the inline comments (and some others below) with a full
explanation of the semantics as well as I understand them, in
kernel-doc format. Formally deprecate some fields that seem to be of
historical use only.
Extend the comment about 32/64-bit compatibility to cover all
ethtool structures.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a comment which explains the real meaning of XCVR_INTERNAL (PHY and
Ethernet MAC in the same package/die) and XCVR_EXTERNAL (PHY and
Ethernet MAC in a different package/die). Most if not all of the drivers
setting their transceiver type already do it the way the comment
describes it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
