ixgbe: Document how to enable NBASE-T support
authorRobert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:24:48 +0000 (02:24 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:32:43 +0000 (09:32 +0100)
commit2f2ebb7d43243d6697ca9dfac59d0c6b099ad423
treec74bbbd5e1422cd2a034c2ff5b990a68ac0cb355
parent33c1707a8ea4b70187230202de4a51d756602a80
ixgbe: Document how to enable NBASE-T support

[ Upstream commit 271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe ]

Commit a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0
Gbps support") introduced suppression of the advertisement of NBASE-T
speeds by default, according to Todd Fujinaka to accommodate customers
with network switches which could not cope with advertised NBASE-T
speeds, as posted in the E1000-devel mailing list:

https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/mailman/message/37106269/

However, the suppression was not documented at all, nor was how to
enable NBASE-T support.

Properly document the NBASE-T suppression and how to enable NBASE-T
support.

Fixes: a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0 Gbps support")
Reported-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c