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devlink: Add new "enable_eth" generic device param
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:24:15 +0000 (16:24 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:34:21 +0000 (14:34 +0100)
commitf13a5ad88186c142b4f6060fb06f0f8fb1674915
tree911bf5f21dbdfa095ab194876617f61de7bd8dc4
parente9c130ad665c60dc965feb4d84580a01c7abb9e4
devlink: Add new "enable_eth" generic device param

Add new device generic parameter to enable/disable creation of
Ethernet auxiliary device and associated device functionality
in the devlink instance.

User who prefers to disable such functionality can disable it using below
example.

$ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 \
              name enable_eth value false cmode driverinit
$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:06:00.0

At this point devlink instance do not create auxiliary device for the
Ethernet functionality.

Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
include/net/devlink.h
net/core/devlink.c