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| author |   Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com> | 2020-10-07 09:00:53 +0300 |
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| committer |   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2020-10-09 12:06:53 -0700 |
| commit | 195d9dece1686576ad1c7b45942b5cf9eacb3fbf (patch) | |
| tree | 4bdf594dd64e1804cab6936a7d29b85960643078 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | net/mlx5: Add support for devlink reload action fw activate (diff) | |
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devlink: Add enable_remote_dev_reset generic parameter
The enable_remote_dev_reset devlink param flags that the host admin
allows device resets that can be initiated by other hosts. This
parameter is useful for setups where a device is shared by different
hosts, such as multi-host setup. Once the user set this parameter to
false, the driver should NACK any attempt to reset the device while the
driver is loaded.
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst index d075fd090b3d..54c9f107c4b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst @@ -108,3 +108,9 @@ own name. * - ``region_snapshot_enable`` - Boolean - Enable capture of ``devlink-region`` snapshots. + * - ``enable_remote_dev_reset`` + - Boolean + - Enable device reset by remote host. When cleared, the device driver + will NACK any attempt of other host to reset the device. This parameter + is useful for setups where a device is shared by different hosts, such + as multi-host setup. |