Jakub Kicinski
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The previous attempt to augment carrier_down (see Link) was not met with much enthusiasm so let's do the simple thing of exposing what some devices already maintain. Add a common ethtool statistic for link going down. Currently users have to maintain per-driver mapping to extract the right stat from the vendor-specific ethtool -S stats. carrier_down does not fit the bill because it counts a lot of software related false positives. Add the statistic to the extended link state API to steer vendors towards implementing all of it. Implement for bnxt and all Linux-controlled PHYs. mlx5 and (possibly) enic also have a counter for this but I leave the implementation to their maintainers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220520004500.2250674-1-kuba@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104190125.684910-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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