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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index d583d9abf2f8..3ca6c21e74af 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Structure of this header is ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_INDEX`` u32 device ifindex ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME`` string device name ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS`` u32 flags common for all requests + ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_PHY_INDEX`` u32 phy device index ============================== ====== ============================= ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_INDEX`` and ``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME`` identify the @@ -81,6 +82,12 @@ the behaviour is backward compatible, i.e. requests from old clients not aware of the flag should be interpreted the way the client expects. A client must not set flags it does not understand. +``ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_PHY_INDEX`` identify the ethernet PHY the message relates to. +As there are numerous commands that are related to PHY configuration, and because +we can have more than one PHY on the link, the PHY index can be passed in the +request for the commands that needs it. It is however not mandatory, and if it +is not passed for commands that target a PHY, the net_device.phydev pointer +is used, as a fallback that keeps the legacy behaviour. Bit sets ======== |