netdev - Re: What now when we're [almost] out of ADVERTISED bits?

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Message-ID: <1448844054.1990.32.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:40:54 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
	Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Decotigny <ddecotig@...il.com>
Subject: Re: What now when we're [almost] out of ADVERTISED bits?

On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 23:39 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com> wrote:
> > [I suspect there was probably some discussion over this,
> > but I couldn't find it; References would be welcome]
> 
> there was a work by David Decotigny that should have solved the out of
> bits problem here [1]. Maybe it should be revived.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/26/882

Yes, it should.

Ben.

> > So it appears we're almost out of bits for new advertised speeds;
> > I'm currently looking at adding 100g.
> > 
> > Assuming we want [and we do want] to have those in the `supported',
> > `advertising' and `lp_advertising' fields, the 2 reserve fields in
> > ethtool_cmd would not be sufficient [unless we break them into 4 u16].
> > Or are we planning something more generic than this for future bits?
> 
> Or.
-- 
Ben Hutchings
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