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authorRobert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>2021-10-26 02:24:48 +0200
committerTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>2021-12-15 11:09:29 -0800
commit271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe (patch)
treeaff28c175bb0057f19bcd796bdb3e948dc86f720 /drivers/net
parent0182d1f3fa640888a2ed7e3f6df2fdb10adee7c8 (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.c4
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);
}