On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 04:19:19PM +0000, Stefan Chulski wrote:
> > > > I discussed it with Andrew earlier last year, and his response was:
> > > >
> > > >  DT configuration of pause for fixed link probably is sufficient. I
> > > > don't  remember it ever been really discussed for DSA. It was a
> > > > Melanox  discussion about limiting pause for the CPU. So I think it
> > > > is safe to  not implement ethtool -A, at least until somebody has a
> > > > real use case  for it.
> > > >
> > > > So I chose not to support it - no point supporting features that
> > > > people aren't using. If you have a "real use case" then it can be added.
> > >
> > > This patch may be sufficient - I haven't fully considered all the
> > > implications of changing this though.
> > 
> > Did you try this patch? What's the outcome?
> 
> For me patch worked as expected.

Great, thanks. Andrew, do you have any further opinions on this
subject, or shall I sent a proper patch for net-next?

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