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Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:23:45 +0100
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net-sysfs: Ensure begin/complete are called in
 speed_show() and duplex_show()
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:06:38AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 04:16:16PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > Device like igb gets runtime suspended when there's no link partner. We
> > can't get correct speed under that state:
> > $ cat /sys/class/net/enp3s0/speed
> > 1000
> > 
> > In addition to that, an error can also be spotted in dmesg:
> > [  385.991957] igb 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: PCIe link lost
> > 
> > It's because the igb device doesn't get runtime resumed before calling
> > get_link_ksettings().
> > 
> > So let's use a new helper to call begin() and complete() like what
> > dev_ethtool() does, to runtime resume/suspend or power up/down the
> > device properly.
> > 
> > Once this fix is in place, igb can show the speed correctly without link
> > partner:
> > $ cat /sys/class/net/enp3s0/speed
> > -1
> 
> What is the meaning of -1? Does it tells us "Hey, something is bad in hardware
> I can't tell you the speed" or does it imply anything else?

It's SPEED_UNKNOWN constant printed with "%d" template.

> Wouldn't be better to report 0?
> 
> Where is the documentation part of this ABI change?

It's not an ABI change, /sys/class/net/*/speed already shows -1 when the
device reports SPEED_UNKNOWN. The only change is that after this patch,
igb driver reports SPEED_UNKNOWN rather than an outdated value if there
is no link.

Michal