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| author | Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> | 2020-03-12 21:08:08 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-03-12 15:32:33 -0700 |
| commit | e16c3386fc4d9611b6a2abaa639318c7ae793370 (patch) | |
| tree | cf0205fc9bc9d96f6e17b98a2250a5ad9a8ac6fa /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 9c6451ef4881c2f528c625766e8bb9af5e40941a (diff) | |
ethtool: provide private flags with PRIVFLAGS_GET request
Implement PRIVFLAGS_GET request to get private flags for a network device.
These are traditionally available via ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS 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/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 30 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index 47542f042e9d..7bba4c940ef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_WOL_SET`` set wake-on-lan settings ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET`` get device features ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` set device features + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET`` get private flags ===================================== ================================ Kernel to userspace: @@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET_REPLY`` device features ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET_REPLY`` optional reply to FEATURES_SET ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` netdev features notification + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET_REPLY`` private flags ===================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -598,6 +600,32 @@ request but also each time features are modified with netdev_update_features() or netdev_change_features(). +PRIVFLAGS_GET +============= + +Gets private flags like ``ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS`` ioctl request. + +Request contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_HEADER`` nested request header + ==================================== ====== ========================== + +Kernel response contents: + + ==================================== ====== ========================== + ``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_HEADER`` nested reply header + ``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_FLAGS`` bitset private flags + ==================================== ====== ========================== + +``ETHTOOL_A_PRIVFLAGS_FLAGS`` is a bitset with values of device private flags. +These flags are defined by driver, their number and names (and also meaning) +are device dependent. For compact bitset format, names can be retrieved as +``ETH_SS_PRIV_FLAGS`` string set. If verbose bitset format is requested, +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. + + Request translation =================== @@ -647,7 +675,7 @@ have their netlink replacement yet. ``ETHTOOL_SGSO`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` ``ETHTOOL_GFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` - ``ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS`` n/a + ``ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PRIVFLAGS_GET`` ``ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_GRXFH`` n/a ``ETHTOOL_SRXFH`` n/a |