The "Speed" and "Duplex" fields displayed by ethtool for the OOB interface should report "Unknown" when the link is down to match the behavior of other network interfaces on BlueField (implemented by the mlx5 driver). Currently, the mlxbf_gige driver always reports the initially configured link speed and duplex, regardless of the actual link state. The link speed and duplex are not updated for two reasons: 1. On BlueField the OOB phy is internally hardwired to a three port switch. This means the physical link between the phy and link partner is always up, regardless of the administrative link state configured with ifconfig. 2. phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() reads cached values that are only updated when phy_read_status() is called by the phy state machine. Doing "ifconfig down" will trigger phy_stop() in the ndo_stop() handler. This halts the phy state machine and sets phydev->link without calling phy_read_status() or explicitly updating other values, so the speed and duplex returned by future phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() calls will be stale. While #2 could potentially be fixed (assuming this is even an issue for other devices), #1 is unique to BlueField. Implement a custom get_link_ksettings() handler in mlxbf_gige that calls phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() and updates the speed and duplex based on the link state. When the link is brought down with ifconfig, the driver now reports unknown speed and duplex to ethtool as expected. Signed-off-by: Chris Babroski --- v2: - Update commit message to clarify why phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings() does not return unknown link speed and duplex when the link is down on BlueField. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250813163346.302186-1-cbabroski@nvidia.com/#t .../mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_ethtool.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_ethtool.c index 8b63968bbee9..c519eeb8ec48 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_ethtool.c @@ -159,6 +159,30 @@ static void mlxbf_gige_get_pause_stats(struct net_device *netdev, } } +static int mlxbf_gige_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *ndev, + struct ethtool_link_ksettings *cmd) +{ + struct phy_device *phydev; + int ret; + + ret = phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings(ndev, cmd); + if (ret) + return ret; + + phydev = ndev->phydev; + if (!phydev) + return -ENODEV; + + mutex_lock(&phydev->lock); + if (!phydev->link) { + cmd->base.speed = SPEED_UNKNOWN; + cmd->base.duplex = DUPLEX_UNKNOWN; + } + mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock); + + return 0; +} + const struct ethtool_ops mlxbf_gige_ethtool_ops = { .get_link = ethtool_op_get_link, .get_ringparam = mlxbf_gige_get_ringparam, @@ -170,6 +194,6 @@ const struct ethtool_ops mlxbf_gige_ethtool_ops = { .nway_reset = phy_ethtool_nway_reset, .get_pauseparam = mlxbf_gige_get_pauseparam, .get_pause_stats = mlxbf_gige_get_pause_stats, - .get_link_ksettings = phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings, + .get_link_ksettings = mlxbf_gige_get_link_ksettings, .set_link_ksettings = phy_ethtool_set_link_ksettings, }; -- 2.34.1