On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Steve Lin <steven.lin1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adds a devlink command for getting & setting device configuration > parameters, and enumerates a bunch of those parameters as devlink > attributes. Also introduces an attribute that can be set by a > driver to indicate that the config change doesn't take effect > until the next restart (as in the case of the bnxt driver changes > in this patchset, for which all the configuration changes affect NVM > only, and aren't loaded until the next restart.) > > bnxt driver patches make use of these new devlink cmds/attributes. > > Steve Lin (3): > devlink: Add config parameter get/set operations > bnxt: Move generic devlink code to new file > bnxt: Add devlink support for config get/set > Is the goal here to move all ethtool operations to devlink (I saw some attrs related to speed etc). ?. We do need to move ethtool attrs to netlink and devlink is a good place (and of-course leave the current ethtool api around for backward compatibility).
