netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: support combinations of FEC modes

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Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:49:29 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Dustin Byford <dustin@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: support combinations of FEC modes

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 05:33:38PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > One loosely related question: how sure can we be that we are never going
> > to need more than 32 bits for FEC encodings? Is it something completely
> > hypothetical or is it something that could happen in the future?
> > 
> Hi Michal
> 
> Hopefully we have moved to a netlink socket by that time :-)

Actually, that's why I'm asking. :-)

> I recently found that EEE still uses a u32 for advertise link modes.
> We should fix that in the netlink API.

For EEE it felt obvious that arbitrary length bitmap is the way to go so
I used it (it's still u32 in ethtool_ops but that's easier to change
when needed).

For FEC I wasn't sure if it wouldn't be an overkill.

Michal Kubecek