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| author | Mateusz Polchlopek <mateusz.polchlopek@intel.com> | 2023-10-12 08:31:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-13 17:30:00 -0700 |
| commit | a258c804aa8742763dce694b5e992d7ccf4294f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 15b5bca4d26b37fca1ef90f4fe65654203d31a92 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0f4d44f6ee048818abf80c69b6bc48927c178abe (diff) | |
docs: fix info about representor identification
Update the "How are representors identified?" documentation
subchapter. For newer kernels driver should use
SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT instead of ndo_get_devlink_port()
callback.
Fixes: 7712b3e966ea ("Merge branch 'net-fix-netdev-to-devlink_port-linkage-and-expose-to-user'")
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Polchlopek <mateusz.polchlopek@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012123144.15768-1-mateusz.polchlopek@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/representors.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/representors.rst b/Documentation/networking/representors.rst index ee1f5cd54496..decb39c19b9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/representors.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/representors.rst @@ -162,9 +162,11 @@ How are representors identified? The representor netdevice should *not* directly refer to a PCIe device (e.g. through ``net_dev->dev.parent`` / ``SET_NETDEV_DEV()``), either of the representee or of the switchdev function. -Instead, it should implement the ``ndo_get_devlink_port()`` netdevice op, which -the kernel uses to provide the ``phys_switch_id`` and ``phys_port_name`` sysfs -nodes. (Some legacy drivers implement ``ndo_get_port_parent_id()`` and +Instead, the driver should use the ``SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT`` macro to +assign a devlink port instance to the netdevice before registering the +netdevice; the kernel uses the devlink port to provide the ``phys_switch_id`` +and ``phys_port_name`` sysfs nodes. +(Some legacy drivers implement ``ndo_get_port_parent_id()`` and ``ndo_get_phys_port_name()`` directly, but this is deprecated.) See :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst <devlink_port>` for the details of this API. |