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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-10-29 09:12:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-10-29 09:12:34 +0300 |
| commit | 97ec37c57dd411d0815455bca07166411c0da1df (patch) | |
| tree | d64850c43778d15c137772957788093a8b7d032c /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | |
| parent | ace6485a03266cc3c198ce8e927a1ce0ce139699 (diff) | |
| parent | b59dfdaef173677b0b7e10f375226c0a1114fd20 (diff) | |
| download | linux-97ec37c57dd411d0815455bca07166411c0da1df.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent, to refresh the tree
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net index 2f1788111cd9..664a8f6a634f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net @@ -91,6 +91,24 @@ Description: stacked (e.g: VLAN interfaces) but still have the same MAC address as their parent device. +What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/dev_port +Date: February 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.15 +Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org +Description: + Indicates the port number of this network device, formatted + as a decimal value. Some NICs have multiple independent ports + on the same PCI bus, device and function. This attribute allows + userspace to distinguish the respective interfaces. + + Note: some device drivers started to use 'dev_id' for this + purpose since long before 3.15 and have not adopted the new + attribute ever since. To query the port number, some tools look + exclusively at 'dev_port', while others only consult 'dev_id'. + If a network device has multiple client adapter ports as + described in the previous paragraph and does not set this + attribute to its port number, it's a kernel bug. + What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/dormant Date: March 2006 KernelVersion: 2.6.17 @@ -117,7 +135,7 @@ Description: full: full duplex Note: This attribute is only valid for interfaces that implement - the ethtool get_settings method (mostly Ethernet). + the ethtool get_link_ksettings method (mostly Ethernet). What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/flags Date: April 2005 @@ -224,7 +242,7 @@ Description: an integer representing the link speed in Mbits/sec. Note: this attribute is only valid for interfaces that implement - the ethtool get_settings method (mostly Ethernet ). + the ethtool get_link_ksettings method (mostly Ethernet). What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/tx_queue_len Date: April 2005 |