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| author | Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> | 2023-10-23 11:17:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-24 13:08:14 -0700 |
| commit | 87cd83714f30ef2f19f0390e98beb8d78e173f0f (patch) | |
| tree | ccaf31278a7e1e1c1002be03545f8e2bced509b2 /Documentation/networking/dsa | |
| parent | 6ca80638b90cec66547011ee1ef79e534589989a (diff) | |
net: dsa: Rename IFLA_DSA_MASTER to IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT
This preserves the existing IFLA_DSA_MASTER which is part of the uAPI
and creates an alias named IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023181729.1191071-3-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/dsa')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst index e6c9719874b0..6cc4ded3cc23 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ description which has an ``ethernet`` property. It is up to the user to configure the system for the switch to use other conduits. DSA uses the ``rtnl_link_ops`` mechanism (with a "dsa" ``kind``) to allow -changing the DSA conduit of a user port. The ``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` u32 netlink +changing the DSA conduit of a user port. The ``IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT`` u32 netlink attribute contains the ifindex of the conduit device that handles each user device. The DSA conduit must be a valid candidate based on firmware node information, or a LAG interface which contains only slaves which are valid @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Using iproute2, the following manipulations are possible: dsa master bond0 Notice that in the case of CPU ports under a LAG, the use of the -``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` netlink attribute is not strictly needed, but rather, DSA +``IFLA_DSA_CONDUIT`` netlink attribute is not strictly needed, but rather, DSA reacts to the ``IFLA_MASTER`` attribute change of its present conduit (``eth0``) and migrates all user ports to the new upper of ``eth0``, ``bond0``. Similarly, when ``bond0`` is destroyed using ``RTM_DELLINK``, DSA migrates the user ports |