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authorMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>2020-03-12 21:08:03 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-03-12 15:32:33 -0700
commit9c6451ef4881c2f528c625766e8bb9af5e40941a (patch)
treeca7ef69adba1907b240efe5eaa3aad6c71d18a11 /Documentation
parent0980bfcd6954f124e40a000b85335c197764de14 (diff)
ethtool: add FEATURES_NTF notification
Send ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF notification whenever network device features are modified using ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET netlink message, ethtool ioctl request or any other way resulting in call to netdev_update_features() or netdev_change_features() Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst6
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
index d6706c4aa972..47542f042e9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ Kernel to userspace:
``ETHTOOL_MSG_WOL_NTF`` wake-on-lan settings notification
``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET_REPLY`` device features
``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET_REPLY`` optional reply to FEATURES_SET
+ ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` netdev features notification
===================================== =================================
``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device
@@ -591,6 +592,11 @@ reports the difference between old and new dev->features: mask consists of
bits which have changed, values are their values in new dev->features (after
the operation).
+``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` notification is sent not only if device features
+are modified using ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` request or on of ethtool ioctl
+request but also each time features are modified with netdev_update_features()
+or netdev_change_features().
+
Request translation
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