Ethtool is missing C2C link modes
From: D H, Siddaraju <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-10 21:45:49
Hello Linux Ethernet team, Maxime, Andrew & Michal, The IEEE AUI chip-to-chip (C2C) is the accepted standard for connecting chips that handle subfunctions within the OSI physical layer. Just to pick, the C2C is widely used when connecting Ethernet SoCs with retimers and PCS SerDes terminated external-phys to offload PHY sublayer functions. With the existing ethtool link modes, we were not able to fit these C2C interfaces on any others (we fitted **SGMII interfaces to baseT link modes) and we see this as a gap. If you acknowledge this, we plan to send an RFC patch to define below listed C2C link modes to ethtool. 10G_SFI_C2C SFF-8418 25G_AUI_C2C IEEE 802.3 Annex 109A CAUI4 C2C IEEE 802.3 Annex 83D LAUI2-C2C IEEE 802.3 Annex 135B 50GAUI-1 C2C IEEE 802.3 Annex 135F 200GAUI-4 C2C IEEE 802.3 Annex 120D 100GAUI-1 C2C IEEE 802.3ck Annex 120F 200GAUI-2 C2C IEEE 802.3ck Clause 162 400GAUI-4 C2C IEEE 802.3ck Clause 163 - Thank you, Siddaraju D H