From: Paul Menzel <redacted> 
Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2025 11:57 AM

Dear Jedrzej,


Thank you for your patch.

Am 04.12.25 um 10:53 schrieb Jedrzej Jagielski:

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It may happen that VF spawned for E610 adapter has problem with setting
link up. This happens when ixgbevf supporting mailbox API 1.6 coopearates

cooperates

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with PF driver which doesn't support this version of API, and hence
doesn't support new approach for getting PF link data.

Which commit introduced the support for this API version?

Hi Paul, the one mentioned under the fixes tag.

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In that case VF asks PF to provide link data but as PF doesn't support
it, returns -EOPNOTSUPP what leads to early bail from link configuration
sequence.

Avoid such situation by using legacy VFLINKS approach whenever negotiated
API version is less than 1.6.

It’d be great, if you added how to exactly reproduce the issue.

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Fixes: 53f0eb62b4d2 ("ixgbevf: fix getting link speed data for E610 devices")
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <redacted>
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
index 29c5ce967938..8af88f615776 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c

@@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ static s32 ixgbevf_check_mac_link_vf(struct ixgbe_hw *hw,
  	if (!mac->get_link_status)
  		goto out;