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| author | Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net> | 2021-10-26 02:24:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> | 2021-12-15 11:09:29 -0800 |
| commit | 271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe (patch) | |
| tree | aff28c175bb0057f19bcd796bdb3e948dc86f720 /drivers/net | |
| parent | 0182d1f3fa640888a2ed7e3f6df2fdb10adee7c8 (diff) | |
ixgbe: Document how to enable NBASE-T support
Commit a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0
Gbps support") introduced suppression of the advertisement of NBASE-T
speeds by default, according to Todd Fujinaka to accommodate customers
with network switches which could not cope with advertised NBASE-T
speeds, as posted in the E1000-devel mailing list:
https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/mailman/message/37106269/
However, the suppression was not documented at all, nor was how to
enable NBASE-T support.
Properly document the NBASE-T suppression and how to enable NBASE-T
support.
Fixes: a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0 Gbps support")
Reported-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index 0f9f022260d7..45e2ec4d264d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -5531,6 +5531,10 @@ static int ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config(struct ixgbe_hw *hw) if (!speed && hw->mac.ops.get_link_capabilities) { ret = hw->mac.ops.get_link_capabilities(hw, &speed, &autoneg); + /* remove NBASE-T speeds from default autonegotiation + * to accommodate broken network switches in the field + * which cannot cope with advertised NBASE-T speeds + */ speed &= ~(IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_5GB_FULL | IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_2_5GB_FULL); } |