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| author |   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> | 2020-03-12 21:08:03 +0100 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-03-12 15:32:33 -0700 |
| commit | 9c6451ef4881c2f528c625766e8bb9af5e40941a (patch) | |
| tree | ca7ef69adba1907b240efe5eaa3aad6c71d18a11 /Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | |
| parent | ethtool: set netdev features with FEATURES_SET request (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-9c6451ef4881c2f528c625766e8bb9af5e40941a.tar.xz linux-dev-9c6451ef4881c2f528c625766e8bb9af5e40941a.zip | |
ethtool: add FEATURES_NTF notification
Send ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF notification whenever network device features
are modified using ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET netlink message, ethtool ioctl
request or any other way resulting in call to netdev_update_features() or
netdev_change_features()
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index d6706c4aa972..47542f042e9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ Kernel to userspace: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_WOL_NTF`` wake-on-lan settings notification ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_GET_REPLY`` device features ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET_REPLY`` optional reply to FEATURES_SET + ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` netdev features notification ===================================== ================================= ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device @@ -591,6 +592,11 @@ reports the difference between old and new dev->features: mask consists of bits which have changed, values are their values in new dev->features (after the operation). +``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_NTF`` notification is sent not only if device features +are modified using ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET`` request or on of ethtool ioctl +request but also each time features are modified with netdev_update_features() +or netdev_change_features(). + Request translation =================== |