Saturday, April 27, 2019 7:20 AM¸ Viacheslav Ovsiienko: > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: inherit master link settings for > representors > > There are some physical link settings can be queried from Ethernet devices: > link status, link speed, speed capabilities, duplex mode, etc. These setting > do > not make a lot of sense for representors due to missing physical link. The > new kernel drivers dropped query for link settings for representors causing > the ioctl call to fail. This patch adds some kind of emulation of link > settings to > PMD - representors inherit the link parameters from the master device. The > actual link status (up/down) is retrieved from the representor device. > > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.
