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| author | Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> | 2020-03-12 23:08:13 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-03-13 01:32:33 +0300 |
| commit | f265d799596aff80fe19b0b3896a4abe13cdb534 (patch) | |
| tree | 38202b7d363055d95df637765e501a81de70207c /Documentation | |
| parent | e16c3386fc4d9611b6a2abaa639318c7ae793370 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f265d799596aff80fe19b0b3896a4abe13cdb534.tar.xz | |
ethtool: set device private flags with PRIVFLAGS_SET request
Implement PRIVFLAGS_SET netlink request to set private flags of a network
device. These are traditionally set with ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS ioctl request.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index 7bba4c940ef7..e553112fa2d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET`` get device features ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` set device features ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET`` get private flags + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_SET`` set private flags ===================================== ================================ Kernel to userspace: @@ -211,6 +212,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET_REPLY`` optional reply to FEATURES_SET ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` netdev features notification ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET_REPLY`` private flags + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_NTF`` private flags ===================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -626,6 +628,23 @@ response uses all private flags supported by the device as mask so that client gets the full information without having to fetch the string set with names. +PRIVFLAGS_SET +============= + +Sets or modifies values of device private flags like ``ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS`` +ioctl request. + +Request contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_HEADER`` nested request header + ``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_FLAGS`` bitset private flags + ==================================== ====== ========================== + +``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_FLAGS`` can either set the whole set of private flags or +modify only values of some of them. + + Request translation =================== @@ -676,7 +695,7 @@ have their netlink replacement yet. ``ETHTOOL_GFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` ``ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET`` - ``ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS`` n/a + ``ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_SET`` ``ETHTOOL_GRXFH`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_SRXFH`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_GGRO`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET`` |