netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 ethtool] ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:38:11 +0200
From:   Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "John W . Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 ethtool] ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed
 Solomon



On 3/24/2020 4:54 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:01:41PM +0200, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>> From: Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
>>
>> Introduce a new FEC mode LL-RS: Low Latency Reed Solomon, update print
>> and initialization functions accordingly. In addition, update related
>> man page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
>> ---
> [...]
>> @@ -754,6 +755,12 @@ static void dump_link_caps(const char *prefix, const char *an_prefix,
>>   			fprintf(stdout, " RS");
>>   			fecreported = 1;
>>   		}
>> +		if (ethtool_link_mode_test_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_FEC_LLRS_BIT,
>> +					       mask)) {
>> +			fprintf(stdout, " LL-RS");
>> +			fecreported = 1;
>> +		}
>> +
>>   		if (!fecreported)
>>   			fprintf(stdout, " Not reported");
>>   		fprintf(stdout, "\n");
> 
> Kernel uses "LLRS" for this bit since commit f623e5970501 ("ethtool: Add
> support for low latency RS FEC") so if you use "LL-RS" here, the output
> will differ between ioctl and netlink code paths.
> 
> It's not necessary to use the same name also for --show-fec/--set-fec
> (string set and netlink support for these is still work in progress) but
> it would IMHO be better to be consistent.

Thanks for this comment, will re-spin shortly and lose the hyphen altogether
> 
> Michal Kubecek
>