Re: Question about Mellanox FW reporting (incorrect) port types

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner [off-list ref] wrote:

[...] So my questions are: is it possible to the firmware report a wrong port type like
that? Is it somehow configurable by sysadmin (via fw update, ..), can we flip that byte
or is it a manufacturing issue?

I'm not sure, Yevgeny/Yishai do you have any insights here?

I can't try upstream driver

why?! netdev is dealing with upstream, isn't it?

Or.