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| author |   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> | 2020-01-09 14:46:15 -0800 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-01-10 17:06:59 -0800 |
| commit | 5948f85bbcb3874746702ad8e9ca1bf787005d47 (patch) | |
| tree | 286157315b1999fbe9c6e5500ceaf56dabeaae74 | |
| parent | devlink: add documentation for generic devlink parameters (diff) | |
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devlink: mention reloading in devlink-params.rst
Mention that drivers must support devlink-reload in order for driverinit
parameters to function properly
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst index 7106c79e29be..da2f85c0fa21 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ Parameters may be set in different configuration modes. - written to the device's non-volatile memory. A hard reset is required for it to take effect. +Reloading +--------- + +In order for ``driverinit`` parameters to take effect, the driver must +support reloading via the ``devlink-reload`` command. This command will +request a reload of the device driver. + Generic configuration parameters ================================ The following is a list of generic configuration parameters that drivers may |