From: Jason Baron <jba...@akamai.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:44:54 -0500
> The ability to set speed and duplex for virtio_net is useful in various > scenarios as described here: > > 16032be virtio_net: add ethtool support for set and get of settings > > However, it would be nice to be able to set this from the hypervisor, > such that virtio_net doesn't require custom guest ethtool commands. > > Introduce a new feature flag, VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, which allows > the hypervisor to export a linkspeed and duplex setting. The user can > subsequently overwrite it later if desired via: 'ethtool -s'. > > Note that VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX is defined as bit 63, the intention > is that device feature bits are to grow down from bit 63, since the > transports are starting from bit 24 and growing up. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jba...@akamai.com> Applied, thanks Jason.
