netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ice: add support for Auto FEC with FEC disabled

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Date:   Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:40:54 -0700
From:   "Greenwalt, Paul" <paul.greenwalt@...el.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
CC:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ice: add support for Auto FEC with FEC
 disabled


On 7/14/2022 10:09 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:03:09 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
>> The default Link Establishment State Machine (LESM) behavior does not
>> allow the use of FEC disabled if the media does not support FEC
>> disabled. However users may want to override this behavior.
>>
>> Add ethtool private flag allow-no-fec-modules-in-auto to allow Auto FEC
>> with no-FEC mode.
>>
>> 	ethtool --set-priv-flags ethX allow-no-fec-modules-in-auto on|off
> No more priv flags for FEC config please. Use the ethtool --set-fec API
> and extend it as needed.


Hi Jakub,

I will look into adding this support by extending ethtool --set-fec.

Thanks,

Paul Greenwalt