Bug 1527677

Summary:	Backport FEC configuration for userspace ethtool utility
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe>
Component:	ethtool	Assignee:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jakub Heger <jheger>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.5	CC:	bhu, dirk.vandermerwe, jheger, jkejda, jshortt, linville, mark.guinther, qe-baseos-apps, simon.horman, tumeya
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 15:27:55 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Dirk van der Merwe 2017-12-19 21:22:27 UTC

Bugzilla overview:
This is a backport request from Netronome for RHEL 7.5.

Bugzilla Description:
Modify ethtool utility to enable configuration of Forward Error Correction for network devices that support this.

Bugzilla dependencies: bug 1519199

Drivers or hardware dependencies: Netronome SmartNICs or NICs supporting FEC from other vendors

Upstream acceptance information:  The patch is available upstream. The relevant commit is:
8db75d1e4001 ethtool: Support for FEC encoding control
External link:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git/commit/?id=8db75d1e4001ac4cdfc73d5bedd0ec6d58a3d617

Business Justification: Configuration of FEC is necessary for interoperability between vendors.

Primary contact at Red Hat:
Andre Beausoleil
abeausol
Primary contact at Partner:
Dirk van der Merwe
dirk.vandermerwe

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 15:27:55 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0858