Hey Ryan, As for submitting a patch for get/set_link_ksettings the normal way it works is you would submit the patch upstream to Jeff's queue. We would look it over including some testing here. If it ended up getting in we would later back port it into the sourceforge driver and you would hopefully (somewhat depending on the timing of the patches arrival) see it in the next release.
One of the reason we haven't done this work yet is that the 5G/2.5G support in X550 isn't currently compatible with the IEEE standard (802.3bz) largely due to the HW being release before the spec was. All that is supported is AQ's proprietary NBASE-T, we don't advertising support as allowing it to be forced might confuse customers attempting to connect with the IEEE standard. We do plan to support 802.3bz in the future, can't tell you when as I don't know myself :), but at that point we would add the support. I wanted to make this clear so you knew the limitation of the current HW. Thanks, -Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidm...@intel.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Schaefer [mailto:ryanschaefe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 9:43 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS/SLINKSETTINGS > > Don, > > If I were to submit a patch for get/set_link_ksettings, would I do it against > the > latest ixgbe driver in the mainline kernel, or against the latest release > here on > sourceforge? > > Without the get/set_link_ksettings, there is no support for changing the > advertising of 2.5/5G support with ethtool that I can find (or for forcing > speed > for that matter, but that doesn't require the new API as far as I can tell). > > Cheers, > Ryan > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Ryan Schaefer > <ryanschaefe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I am doing some testing with x550 T1 Adapter, and am hoping to force > > link speeds to 2.5/5G. Is there work being done currently to offer > > more fine grained control of the advertised modes of this adapter? > > > > In the same vein, is it planned to switch to the new > > get/set_link_ksettings API, to support larger link mode masks? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
