[RFC PATCH 1/4] ethdev: add support to provide link type

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:38:34 +0530
Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com> wrote:

>  /**
>   * A structure used to retrieve link-level information of an Ethernet port.
>   */
> @@ -341,6 +354,7 @@ struct rte_eth_link {
>  			uint16_t link_duplex  : 1;  /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[HALF/FULL]_DUPLEX */
>  			uint16_t link_autoneg : 1;  /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[AUTONEG/FIXED] */
>  			uint16_t link_status  : 1;  /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_[DOWN/UP] */
> +			uint16_t link_type    : 5;  /**< RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_* */
>  		};
>  	};
>  };

Seems like an ABI break, and not sure that all drivers will fill those bits with zero now.