netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] nfp: add support for link auto negotiation

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2022 10:45:30 +0800
From:   Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@...igine.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        oss-drivers <oss-drivers@...igine.com>,
        Fei Qin <fei.qin@...igine.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] nfp: add support for link auto negotiation

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 05:24:10PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:41:57 +0800 Yinjun Zhang wrote:
> > > Why is the sp_indif thing configured at the nfp_main layer, before 
> > > the eth table is read? Doing this inside nfp_net_main seems like 
> > > the wrong layering to me.  
> > 
> > Because the value of sp_indiff depends on the loaded application
> > firmware, please ref to previous commit:
> > 2b88354d37ca ("nfp: check if application firmware is indifferent to port speed")
> 
> AFAICT you check if it's flower, you can check that in the main code,
> the app id is just a symbol, right?

Not only check if it's flower, but also check if it's sp_indiff when
it's not flower by parsing the tlv caps.