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From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: question about ethtool bits?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:47:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141110124718.00004efc@unknown> (raw)

Ben et al,

So, I was just looking at adding some more types/speeds to
ethtool.h and noticed we are about out of bits in ecmd->advertising
(and others), which are declared u32.

We currently have room for one more type (bit 31) and then all 32 bits
will be full.

Previous solutions have involved adding a new struct member to the end
of ecmd and friends and calling it u32 advertising2 or something.
Another option could be adding a u64, but there may be not fun results
of doing so.

...
#define SUPPORTED_56000baseSR4_Full     (1 << 29)
#define SUPPORTED_56000baseLR4_Full     (1 << 30)

...
#define ADVERTISED_56000baseSR4_Full    (1 << 29)
#define ADVERTISED_56000baseLR4_Full    (1 << 30)

in the case of speed there is already a speed_hi, so that gets us 32
bits of speed expressed in Mb/s

These fast networks create so many problems ;-)

There are two u32's reserved at the end of ethtool_cmd.

Suggestions?

             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-10 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10 20:47 Jesse Brandeburg [this message]
2014-11-11 18:12 ` question about ethtool bits? Ben Hutchings

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