Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:32:33AM CET, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote:
>Update the section about switchdev drivers having to implement a
>switchdev_port_attr_get() function to return
>SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID since that is no longer valid after
>commit bccb30254a4a ("net: Get rid of
>SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID").
>
>Fixes: bccb30254a4a ("net: Get rid of SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID")
>Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
>---
> Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
>b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
>index f3244d87512a..2842f63ad47b 100644
>--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
>@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ device.
> Switch ID
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
>-The switchdev driver must implement the switchdev op switchdev_port_attr_get
>-for SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID for each port netdev, returning the same
>-physical ID for each port of a switch. The ID must be unique between switches
>-on the same system. The ID does not need to be unique between switches on
>-different systems.
>+The switchdev driver must implement the net_device operation
>+ndo_get_port_parent_id for each port netdev, returning the same physical ID
Double space. Otherwise, this looks fine.
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
>+for each port of a switch. The ID must be unique between switches on the same
>+system. The ID does not need to be unique between switches on different
>+systems.
>
> The switch ID is used to locate ports on a switch and to know if aggregated
> ports belong to the same switch.
>--
>2.17.1
>
