netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 ethtool] ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon

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Message-ID: <2b110b9f-2b55-7064-69be-19e17dfd1b39@mellanox.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:54:31 +0300
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "John W . Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>,
        Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 ethtool] ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed
 Solomon



On 3/27/2020 1:51 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:09:29PM +0200, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>> From: Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
>>
>> Introduce a new FEC mode LLRS: 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>
>> ---
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
> 
> The kernel counterpart is only in net-next at the moment so that,
> technically, this should wait until after ethtool 5.6 is released.
> On the other hand, having the entry in link_modes array would improve
> compatibility with future kernels so that it would make sense to apply
> this patch now.
> 
> Michal
> 

Hi,

What is your plan for this patch?
It's not merged into master yet.

Regards,
Tariq