Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ibmveth: Allow users to update reported speed and duplex

On Tue,  6 Aug 2019 11:23:08 -0500, Thomas Falcon wrote:

Reported ethtool link settings for the ibmveth driver are currently
hardcoded and no longer reflect the actual capabilities of supported
hardware. There is no interface designed for retrieving this information
from device firmware nor is there any way to update current settings
to reflect observed or expected link speeds.

To avoid breaking existing configurations, retain current values as
default settings but let users update them to match the expected
capabilities of underlying hardware if needed. This update would
allow the use of configurations that rely on certain link speed
settings, such as LACP. This patch is based on the implementation
in virtio_net.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <redacted>

Looks like this is the third copy of the same code virtio and
netvsc have :(  Is there a chance we could factor this out into
helpers in the core?