This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool pause support and advertise reporting
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-fix-ethtool-pause-support-and-advertise-reporting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed May 31 09:13:34 JST 2017
From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:35:15 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool pause support and advertise reporting
From: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e3c19503712d6360239b19c14cded56dd63c40d7 ]
Pause bit should set when RX pause is on, not TX pause.
Also, setting Asym_Pause is incorrect, and should be turned off.
Fixes: 665bc53969d7 ("net/mlx5e: Use new ethtool get/set link ksettings API")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
@@ -751,7 +751,6 @@ static void get_supported(u32 eth_proto_
ptys2ethtool_supported_port(link_ksettings, eth_proto_cap);
ptys2ethtool_supported_link(supported, eth_proto_cap);
ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, supported, Pause);
- ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, supported, Asym_Pause);
}
static void get_advertising(u32 eth_proto_cap, u8 tx_pause,
@@ -761,7 +760,7 @@ static void get_advertising(u32 eth_prot
unsigned long *advertising = link_ksettings->link_modes.advertising;
ptys2ethtool_adver_link(advertising, eth_proto_cap);
- if (tx_pause)
+ if (rx_pause)
ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, advertising, Pause);
if (tx_pause ^ rx_pause)
ethtool_link_ksettings_add_link_mode(link_ksettings, advertising, Asym_Pause);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-ethtool-pause-support-and-advertise-reporting.patch
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-use-the-correct-pause-values-for-ethtool-advertising.patch