[PATCH v8 1/1] ethdev: add support to provide link type

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:02:33 +0530
<skori at marvell.com> wrote:

> 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_CONNECTOR_XXX
> to a readable string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com>

Looks good now. Would prefer that you settle on one
term connector rather than mixing 'link type' and 'link connnector'
in commit description and comments. Do you want me to
make it consistent?

Please also provide release note with short concise summary
and what user should expect as default until/unless drivers
change it.