netdev - Re: Question about Mellanox FW reporting (incorrect) port types

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Message-ID: <CAJZOPZ+T7paqVe12n+sBw4ra8AEWCZ+W2GZ52iJY=9Hrgoxuaw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:22:30 +0200
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>,
	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Yishai Hadas <yishaih@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: Question about Mellanox FW reporting (incorrect) port types

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> [...] So my questions are: is it possible to the firmware report a wrong port type like
> that? Is it somehow configurable by sysadmin (via fw update, ..), can we flip that byte
> or is it a manufacturing issue?


I'm not sure, Yevgeny/Yishai do you have any insights here?

> I can't try upstream driver

why?! netdev is dealing with upstream, isn't it?

Or.
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