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ixgbe/base: disable X550em FEC to save power
authorWenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Fri, 5 Jun 2015 05:21:44 +0000 (13:21 +0800)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:42:44 +0000 (22:42 +0200)
commitd4c9ffd4fe1c84dcc40757d937de43244cd89833
tree45e338f775c23f5c82426b637502d636e57772e9tree | snapshot
parente9c72a4129abc8f5b405ac8b798ab6720d8866b9commit | diff
ixgbe/base: disable X550em FEC to save power

The FEC (Forward Error Correction) feature can improve BER (Bit Error Rate)
but uses more power to do so. It also cannot be used with
EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet).
EEE is an important feature, and we have no known BER issues, so FEC
is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_x550.c diff | blob | history
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