RE: [EXT] Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-16 Thread Manish Chopra
@molgen.mpg.de > Subject: [EXT] Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than > 0x7fff > > External Email > > -- > Dear Jakub, > > > Sorry, one more addition. > > Am 16.03.

Re: [EXT] Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-16 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:52:32 +0100 Michal Kubecek wrote: > > Yup, IIUC it works for Paul on a 5.17 system, that system likely has > > old ethtool user space tool which uses ioctls instead of netlink. > > > > What makes the netlink path somewhat non-trivial is that there is > > an expectation that

Re: [EXT] Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-16 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:17:54AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:49:39 + Manish Chopra wrote: > > As ethtool over netlink has some limitations of the size, > > I believe you can configure ethtool with "--disable-netlink" and set those > > message levels fine > > Yup, I

Re: [EXT] Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-16 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:49:39 + Manish Chopra wrote: > As ethtool over netlink has some limitations of the size, > I believe you can configure ethtool with "--disable-netlink" and set those > message levels fine Yup, IIUC it works for Paul on a 5.17 system, that system likely has old ethtool u

Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, Sorry, one more addition. Am 16.03.22 um 06:16 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 16.03.22 um 02:35 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the message level for the network device to 0x0100

Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, Am 16.03.22 um 02:35 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the message level for the network device to 0x010 but it fails. $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x010

Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-15 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: > On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the > message level for the network device to 0x010 but it fails. > > $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x010 > netlink error: cannot modify bits past kernel b

bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

2022-03-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the message level for the network device to 0x010 but it fails. $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x010 netlink error: cannot modify bits past kernel bitset size (offset 56) netlink error: In