From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:34:38 +0000
On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 17:09 -0500, David Miller wrote:
quoted
From: Simon Xiao <redacted>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:24:08 -0800
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This patch allows the user to set and retrieve speed and duplex of the
hv_netvsc device via ethtool.
Example:
$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
...
Speed: Unknown!
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
...
$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
...
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
...
This is based on patches by Roopa Prabhu and Nikolay Aleksandrov.
Signed-off-by: Simon Xiao <redacted>
Applied, thanks.
I missed this due to flu, but now I look at it - I don't see the point.
Link speed isn't meaingful for a memory-based transport, so "unknown"
is correct. The link is effectively full duplex though.
If the issue is that ethtool is a bit shouty about unknowns, let's
consider changing that in ethtool, not teaching drivers to lie.
The issue is that certain bonding modes do not work properly without
a speed being reported by a device.
We're doing this for other "virtual" devices already thanks to changes
that went in last week, so there is precedence.