netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] ice: support FEC automatic disable

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:35:41 +0300
From:   Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] ice: support FEC automatic disable

On 23/08/2022 18:04, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 2) always treat ETHTOOL_FEC_AUTO as "automatic + allow disable"
>
>   This could work, but it means that behavior will differ depending on the
>   firmware version. Users have no way to know that and might be surprised to
>   find the behavior differ across devices which have different firmware
>   which do or don't support this variation of automatic selection.

Hi Jacob,
This is exactly how it's already implemented in mlx5, and I don't really
understand how firmware version is related? Is it specific to your
device firmware?
Maybe you can workaround that in the driver?

I feel like we're going the wrong way here having different flags
interpretations by different drivers.