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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2020-08-06 14:15:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2020-08-06 14:15:47 +0300 |
| commit | 94fb1afb14c4f0ceb8c5508ddddac6819f662e95 (patch) | |
| tree | 4988e5769dc7482caa7f441475ae31f50bbd37ef /Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst | |
| parent | c4735d990268399da9133b0ad445e488ece009ad (diff) | |
| parent | 47ec5303d73ea344e84f46660fff693c57641386 (diff) | |
| download | linux-94fb1afb14c4f0ceb8c5508ddddac6819f662e95.tar.xz | |
Mgerge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core
To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE changes:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst index 3fe11401b838..7572bf6de5c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst @@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ versions is generally discouraged - here, and via any other Linux API. reported for two ports of the same device or on two hosts of a multi-host device should be identical. - .. note:: ``devlink-info`` API should be extended with a new field - if devices want to report board/product serial number (often - reported in PCI *Vital Product Data* capability). + * - ``board.serial_number`` + - Board serial number of the device. + + This is usually the serial number of the board, often available in + PCI *Vital Product Data*. * - ``fixed`` - Group for hardware identifiers, and versions of components @@ -201,10 +203,6 @@ Future work The following extensions could be useful: - - product serial number - NIC boards often get labeled with a board serial - number rather than ASIC serial number; it'd be useful to add board serial - numbers to the API if they can be retrieved from the device; - - on-disk firmware file names - drivers list the file names of firmware they may need to load onto devices via the ``MODULE_FIRMWARE()`` macro. These, however, are per module, rather than per device. It'd be useful to list |