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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
index e553112fa2d7..798c2f97d89b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ Userspace to kernel:
``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` set device features
``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET`` get private flags
``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_SET`` set private flags
+ ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_GET`` get ring sizes
===================================== ================================
Kernel to userspace:
@@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ Kernel to userspace:
``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` netdev features notification
``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET_REPLY`` private flags
``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_NTF`` private flags
+ ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_GET_REPLY`` ring sizes
===================================== =================================
``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device
@@ -645,6 +647,32 @@ Request contents:
modify only values of some of them.
+RINGS_GET
+=========
+
+Gets ring sizes like ``ETHTOOL_GRINGPARAM`` ioctl request.
+
+Request contents:
+
+ ==================================== ====== ==========================
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_HEADER`` nested request header
+ ==================================== ====== ==========================
+
+Kernel response contents:
+
+ ==================================== ====== ==========================
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_HEADER`` nested reply header
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_MAX`` u32 max size of RX ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_MINI_MAX`` u32 max size of RX mini ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_JUMBO_MAX`` u32 max size of RX jumbo ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TX_MAX`` u32 max size of TX ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX`` u32 size of RX ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_MINI`` u32 size of RX mini ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_RX_JUMBO`` u32 size of RX jumbo ring
+ ``ETHTOOL_A_RINGS_TX`` u32 size of TX ring
+ ==================================== ====== ==========================
+
+
Request translation
===================
@@ -671,7 +699,7 @@ have their netlink replacement yet.
``ETHTOOL_SEEPROM`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE`` n/a
- ``ETHTOOL_GRINGPARAM`` n/a
+ ``ETHTOOL_GRINGPARAM`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_GET``
``ETHTOOL_SRINGPARAM`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_GPAUSEPARAM`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_SPAUSEPARAM`` n/a