Re: [PATCH net 5/6] net: hns3: fix wrong print link down up

[Jijie Shao]

on 2023/10/17 21:59, Andrew Lunn wrote
> I still think this is totally valid and correct.
>
> When you turn auto-neg off the link partner is going to react to that,
> it might drop the link. After a while, the link partner will give up
> trying to perform auto-neg and might fall back to 10/Half. At which
> point, the link might allow traffic flow. However, in this example,
> you have a duplex mis-match, so it might not work correctly.
>
> Turning off auto-neg is something you need to do at both ends, and you
> need to then force both ends to the same settings. Link down is
> expected. I would actually be suppressed if no link down events were
> reported.
>
> 	Andrew

Hi Andrew,
Thank you for your comments, we are re-evaluating this issue and may drop this patch.

Regards
Jijie