Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jun 2020 18:47:59 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 05/10] Documentation: networking: ethtool-netlink: Add link extended state |
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> +Link extended states: > + > + ============================ ============================================= > + ``Autoneg failure`` Failure during auto negotiation mechanism
I think you need to define 'failure' here.
Linux PHYs don't have this state. auto-neg is either ongoing, or has completed. There is no time limit for auto-neg. If there is no link partner, auto-neg does not fail, it just continues until there is a link partner which responds and negotiation completes.
Looking at the state diagrams in 802.3 clause 28, what do you consider as failure?
Andrew
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