On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote:
>> It maps to what was done in the PortInfo attribute to add the new
>> extended speeds. There was no room for expansion in the existing
>> original link speed fields so a "parallel" set of fields had to be
>> added there..
>
> That's was an issue with the wire protocol format, correct?

Right.

> Why carry that same concept into a software interface?  It seems complex.

So as not to break existing verbs apps by inventing new values to
existing fields which wouldn't be understood.
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