svn commit: r320897 - in stable/11/sys: conf dev/ixgbe modules/ix modules/ixv

[Eric Joyner]

Olivier,

There is a message about it in dmesg, right? For the error code, there's
not much we can do there aside from adding a new unsupported SFP+ code to
errno.h, which doesn't seem appropriate.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Eric Joyner <erj at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I think it may have been silently renamed to "allow_unsupported_sfp"
>> instead of "unsupported_sfp". Could you try changing the name of that
>> tunable in your config?
>>
>>
> ​Thanks Eric!
>
> Replacing this previous line into my /boot/loader.conf
> hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1"
> by this new one:
> hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp="1"​
>
>
> ​solved the problem: -) but this broke POLA :-(
>
> And the default behavior is not very sysadmin friendly:
> How, with the message "device_attach: ix0 attach returned 5" and no more
> ix interface detected, can I know it just came from using unsupported SFP ?
>
>