On 24.03.2019 02:01, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 3/23/2019 6:14 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> If both link partners are Aquantia PHY's then additional information is >> exchanged as part of the auto-negotiation. Report remote capabilities >> if link partner is Aquantia PHY. >> >> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> > > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > > Petr is trying to introduce a link down reason, but it sounds like we > should also have have a way to enhance the link up with information like > the one you are providing here. It would also be nice if in the future, > ethtool could display additional vendor specific information when the > link is up. ethtool over netlink should facilitate that. > Interesting idea. Most likely the available information will be quite different, dependent on the vendor. So the PHY driver may have to expose a list of items, each with a name and type.
> Thanks! > Heiner
