Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next 7/10] ice: emit user-visible info message for non-contiguous ETS TC config

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 09:49:18AM +0200, Aleksandr Loktionov wrote:
> When the remote LLDP peer advertises a non-contiguous TC
> mapping the driver silently falls back to a default single-TC
> configuration. This leaves the user without any indication of
> why their DCB configuration was not honoured.
> 
> Print an informational message at the entry of
> ice_dcb_noncontig_cfg() so the user knows ETS with
> non-contiguous TCs is not supported and that the driver
> has fallen back to defaults.
> 
> Suggested-by: Karen Ostrowska <karen.ostrowska@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dcb_lib.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dcb_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dcb_lib.c
> index bd77f1c..1c53b09 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dcb_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dcb_lib.c
> @@ -712,6 +712,8 @@ static int ice_dcb_noncontig_cfg(struct ice_pf *pf)
>  	struct device *dev = ice_pf_to_dev(pf);
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	dev_info(dev, "Non-contiguous ETS TC config not supported, falling back to default single TC\n");

Sashiko points out that this seems to be controlled by user input.
If so, it should probably be rate limited.

> +
>  	/* Configure SW DCB default with ETS non-willing */
>  	ret = ice_dcb_sw_dflt_cfg(pf, false, true);
>  	if (ret) {
> -- 
> 2.52.0
>