When interfacing with the ethtool commands it's handy to
be able to use the names of the flags. Example:
ethnl.pause_get({"header": {"dev-index": cfg.ifindex,
"flags": {'stats'}}})
Note that not all commands accept all the flags,
but the meaning of the bits does not change command
to command.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- make sure we don't try to code gen enum (add enum-name:)
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
index 197208f419dc..d0e4a47e0f21 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ doc: Partial family for Ethtool Netlink.
name: stringset
type: enum
entries: []
+ -
+ name: header-flags
+ enum-name:
+ type: flags
+ entries: [ compact-bitsets, omit-reply, stats ]
attribute-sets:
-
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ doc: Partial family for Ethtool Netlink.
-
name: flags
type: u32
+ enum: header-flags
-
name: bitset-bit
--
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