For i40e SR-IOV "ethtool -m" does not provide full output.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • ethtool -m does not provide full information of SFP diagnostic with Intel i40e SRIOV .
Identifier                                   
Extended identifier                       
Connector                                        
Transceiver codes                       
Transceiver type                                                                                      
Encoding                                     
BR, Nominal                                   
Rate identifier                           
Length (SMF,km)                           
Length (SMF)                             
Length (50um)                                 
Length (62.5um)                           
Length (Copper)                                                                          
Length (OM3)                                            
Laser wavelength                                                                                                                        
Vendor name                                   
Vendor OUI                               
Vendor PN                                 
Vendor rev                                
Option values                            
Option                                   
Option                                    
Option                                  
BR margin, max                            
BR margin, min                            
Vendor SN                                 
Date code        

The following below information is missing in the ethtool -m output.

Optical diagnostics support              
Laser bias current                       
Laser output power                      
Receiver signal average optical power    
Module temperature                        
Module voltage                           
Alarm/warning flags implemented     

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later
  • ethtool-5.13-1.el8.x86_64
  • Intel i40e SRIOV driver

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