Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] nfp: separate the port's upper state with lower phy state

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:00:48 -0700

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:33:30 +0000 Yinjun Zhang wrote:
> > Why?  
> 
> I have to say most of other vendors behave like this. It's more practical
> and required by users.

That's not really a practical explanation. Why does anyone want traffic
to flow thru a downed port. Don't down the port, if you want it to be
up, I'd think.

This patch is very unlikely to be accepted upstream.
Custom knobs to do weird things are really not our favorite.