History log of /linux-master/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-resource.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# 321f7ab0 21-Jan-2021 Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>

mlxsw: Register physical ports as a devlink resource

The switch ASIC has a limited capacity of physical ('flavour physical'
in devlink terminology) ports that it can support. While each system is
brought up with a different number of ports, this number can be
increased via splitting up to the ASIC's limit.

Expose physical ports as a devlink resource so that user space will have
visibility to the maximum number of ports that can be supported and the
current occupancy.

In addition, add a "Generic Resources" section in devlink-resource
documentation so the different drivers will be aligned by the same resource
name when exposing to user space.

Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>


# a1af8e9a 09-Jan-2020 Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

devlink: add a devlink-resource.rst documentation file

Take the little bit of documentation for resources from various commit
messages and combine it into a new devlink-resource.rst file.

This could probably be expanded on even further by someone with more
knowledge of how the devlink resources work.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>