From: Lukasz Cieplicki <lukaszx.cieplicki@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 16:55:49 +0000
Subject: i40e: Add additional info to PHY type error
Patch-mainline: v5.14-rc4
Git-commit: dc614c46178b0b89bde86ac54fc687a28580d2b7
References: git-fixes
In case of PHY type error occurs, the message was too generic.
Add additional info to PHY type error indicating that it can be
wrong cable connected.
Fixes: 124ed15bf126 ("i40e: Add dual speed module support")
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Cieplicki <lukaszx.cieplicki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Maloszewski <michal.maloszewski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static void i40e_get_settings_link_up(st
default:
/* if we got here and link is up something bad is afoot */
netdev_info(netdev,
- "WARNING: Link is up but PHY type 0x%x is not recognized.\n",
+ "WARNING: Link is up but PHY type 0x%x is not recognized, or incorrect cable is in use\n",
hw_link_info->phy_type);
}