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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-19 13:13:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-19 13:29:01 -0700 |
| commit | 041c3466f39d7073bbc7fb91c4e5d14170d5eb08 (patch) | |
| tree | c74b553ca90bf3487afc3b04e874fda81f309a08 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | f2cab25b0eb7bd735459059e2eb8d21d2569c41d (diff) | |
| parent | ce55c22ec8b223a90ff3e084d842f73cfba35588 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.
net/mac80211/key.c
02e0e426a2fb ("wifi: mac80211: fix error path key leak")
2a8b665e6bcc ("wifi: mac80211: remove key_mtx")
7d6904bf26b9 ("Merge wireless into wireless-next")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231012113648.46eea5ec@canb.auug.org.au/
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig
a602ee3176a8 ("net: ethernet: ti: Fix mixed module-builtin object")
98bdeae9502b ("net: cpmac: remove driver to prepare for platform removal")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/representors.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/representors.rst b/Documentation/networking/representors.rst index ee1f5cd54496..decb39c19b9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/representors.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/representors.rst @@ -162,9 +162,11 @@ How are representors identified? The representor netdevice should *not* directly refer to a PCIe device (e.g. through ``net_dev->dev.parent`` / ``SET_NETDEV_DEV()``), either of the representee or of the switchdev function. -Instead, it should implement the ``ndo_get_devlink_port()`` netdevice op, which -the kernel uses to provide the ``phys_switch_id`` and ``phys_port_name`` sysfs -nodes. (Some legacy drivers implement ``ndo_get_port_parent_id()`` and +Instead, the driver should use the ``SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT`` macro to +assign a devlink port instance to the netdevice before registering the +netdevice; the kernel uses the devlink port to provide the ``phys_switch_id`` +and ``phys_port_name`` sysfs nodes. +(Some legacy drivers implement ``ndo_get_port_parent_id()`` and ``ndo_get_phys_port_name()`` directly, but this is deprecated.) See :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst <devlink_port>` for the details of this API. |