netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: ethtool: Add impedance mismatch result code to cable test

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:02:26 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit
 <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Stefan Eichenberger <eichest@...il.com>, Dimitri
 Fedrau <dima.fedrau@...il.com>, Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>,
 Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>, Shay Agroskin
 <shayagr@...zon.com>, Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: ethtool: Add impedance mismatch
 result code to cable test

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:29:13 +0100 Pawel Dembicki wrote:
> This commit introduces a new result code:
> ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_RESULT_CODE_IMPEDANCE_MISMATCH
> which represents the results of a cable test indicating abnormal impedance.

I'm not a cable expert but going purely by the language
abnormal != mismatch. Mismatch indicates there are two
values we are comparing.