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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>2016-02-26 17:32:23 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-03-01 16:07:29 -0500
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Introduce devlink infrastructure
Introduce devlink infrastructure for drivers to register and expose to userspace via generic Netlink interface. There are two basic objects defined: devlink - one instance for every "parent device", for example switch ASIC devlink port - one instance for every physical port of the device. This initial portion implements basic get/dump of objects to userspace. Also, port splitter and port type setting is implemented. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ config DST_CACHE
bool "dst cache"
default n
+config NET_DEVLINK
+ tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
+ help
+ Network physical/parent device Netlink interface provides
+ infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and
+ monitoring.
+
endif # if NET
# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF_JIT