On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:04:00 +0100
Dariusz Sosnowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> +/**
> + * Retrieve the carrier state of a device.
> + *
> + * The IFF_RUNNING flag reported by SIOCGIFFLAGS reflects the RFC 2863
> + * operational state, which the kernel only refreshes from its link watch
> + * work queue and which may therefore lag the actual carrier by up to a
> + * second. ETHTOOL_GLINK reports the carrier directly, and additionally
> + * flushes any link watch event still pending for the device.
> + *
> + * @param dev
> + * Pointer to Ethernet device structure.
> + *
> + * @return
> + * 1 if the carrier is up, 0 otherwise.
> + * Negative errno value is returned on error.
> + */
> +int
> +mlx5_link_carrier_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> +{
> + struct ethtool_value ecmd = {
> + .cmd = ETHTOOL_GLINK,
> + };
> + struct ifreq ifr;
> + int ret;
> +
> + memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
Odd, why not use structure initialization for both?
