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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 05:01:04 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: [net-next 06/15] i40evf: don't lie to ethtool

From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>

Don't tell ethtool that the VF can do 10GbaseT, when it really has no
idea what its link speed is. Set the supported values to 0 instead.
Suggested by Ben Hutchings.

CC: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Change-ID: Iceb0d8af68fe5d8dc13224366979ba701ba89c39
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c
index 3566e73..b0f6270 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_ethtool.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int i40evf_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev,
 	/* In the future the VF will be able to query the PF for
 	 * some information - for now use a dummy value
 	 */
-	ecmd->supported = SUPPORTED_10000baseT_Full;
+	ecmd->supported = 0;
 	ecmd->autoneg = AUTONEG_DISABLE;
 	ecmd->transceiver = XCVR_DUMMY1;
 	ecmd->port = PORT_NONE;
-- 
1.9.0

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