Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 04:35:10PM CEST, roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >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). We need to make sure we are not moving things to devlink which don't belong there. All options that use "netdev" as a handle should go into rtnetlink instead.
