From 271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Schlabbach Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:24:48 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Robert Schlabbach Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c') 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); } -- cgit