[PATCH v2 1/1] ethdev: add support to provide link type

[Morten Brørup]

> From: skori at marvell.com [mailto:skori at marvell.com]
> Sent: Friday, 6 June 2025 11.28
> 
> From: Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com>
> 
> Adding link type parameter to provide the type
> of port like twisted pair, fibre etc.
> 
> Also added an API to convert the RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_XXX
> to a readable string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com>
> ---
> +/**@{@name PORT type
> + * Ethernet port type
> + */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_NONE  0x00 /**< Not defined */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_TP    0x01 /**< Twisted Pair */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_AUI   0x02 /**< Attachment Unit Interface */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_MII   0x03 /**< Media Independent Interface
> */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_FIBRE 0x04 /**< Fibre */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_BNC   0x05 /**< BNC */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_DA    0x06 /**< Direct Attach copper */
> +#define RTE_ETH_LINK_TYPE_OTHER 0x1F /**< Other type */
> +/**@}*/

I don't see the use case for this patch, when only ancient interface types are defined.
How about RMII, GMII, RGMII, XGMII, XAUI, XAUI4, CAUI4, SFP, SFP+, SFP28, etc.

Please don't blindly port stuff from Linux to DPDK.