Re: What now when we're [almost] out of ADVERTISED bits?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 23:39 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> wrote:
> > [I suspect there was probably some discussion over this,
> > but I couldn't find it; References would be welcome]
> 
> there was a work by David Decotigny that should have solved the out of
> bits problem here [1]. Maybe it should be revived.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/26/882

Yes, it should.

Ben.

> > So it appears we're almost out of bits for new advertised speeds;
> > I'm currently looking at adding 100g.
> > 
> > Assuming we want [and we do want] to have those in the `supported',
> > `advertising' and `lp_advertising' fields, the 2 reserve fields in
> > ethtool_cmd would not be sufficient [unless we break them into 4 u16].
> > Or are we planning something more generic than this for future bits?
> 
> Or.
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Ben Hutchings
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