Commit daba1b6b authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by David S. Miller
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ethtool: Expand documentation of struct ethtool_drvinfo 



Replace the inline comments (and some others below) with a full
explanation of the semantics, in kernel-doc format.  Specify which
strings may be empty.  Document the relationship with other commands.

Replace the 'deprecation' of some fields with a proper explanation of
the conversion to generalised string sets, as userland programs may
not be able to assume that ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO is available.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bf8fc60a

include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h

+39 −17
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@@ -139,28 +139,50 @@ static inline __u32 ethtool_cmd_speed(const struct ethtool_cmd *ep) 


#define ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN	32

#define ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN	32

/* these strings are set to whatever the driver author decides... */



/**

 * struct ethtool_drvinfo - general driver and device information

 * @cmd: Command number = %ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO

 * @driver: Driver short name.  This should normally match the name

 *	in its bus driver structure (e.g. pci_driver::name).  Must

 *	not be an empty string.

 * @version: Driver version string; may be an empty string

 * @fw_version: Firmware version string; may be an empty string

 * @bus_info: Device bus address.  This should match the dev_name()

 *	string for the underlying bus device, if there is one.  May be

 *	an empty string.

 * @n_priv_flags: Number of flags valid for %ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS and

 *	%ETHTOOL_SPFLAGS commands; also the number of strings in the

 *	%ETH_SS_PRIV_FLAGS set

 * @n_stats: Number of u64 statistics returned by the %ETHTOOL_GSTATS

 *	command; also the number of strings in the %ETH_SS_STATS set

 * @testinfo_len: Number of results returned by the %ETHTOOL_TEST

 *	command; also the number of strings in the %ETH_SS_TEST set

 * @eedump_len: Size of EEPROM accessible through the %ETHTOOL_GEEPROM

 *	and %ETHTOOL_SEEPROM commands, in bytes

 * @regdump_len: Size of register dump returned by the %ETHTOOL_GREGS

 *	command, in bytes

 *

 * Users can use the %ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO command to get the number of

 * strings in any string set (from Linux 2.6.34).

 *

 * Drivers should set at most @driver, @version, @fw_version and

 * @bus_info in their get_drvinfo() implementation.  The ethtool

 * core fills in the other fields using other driver operations.

 */

struct ethtool_drvinfo {

	__u32	cmd;

	char	driver[32];	/* driver short name, "tulip", "eepro100" */

	char	version[32];	/* driver version string */

	char	fw_version[ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN];	/* firmware version string */

	char	bus_info[ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN];	/* Bus info for this IF. */

				/* For PCI devices, use pci_name(pci_dev). */

	char	driver[32];

	char	version[32];

	char	fw_version[ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN];

	char	bus_info[ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN];

	char	reserved1[32];

	char	reserved2[12];

				/*

				 * Some struct members below are filled in

				 * using ops->get_sset_count().  Obtaining

				 * this info from ethtool_drvinfo is now

				 * deprecated; Use ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO

				 * instead.

				 */

	__u32	n_priv_flags;	/* number of flags valid in ETHTOOL_GPFLAGS */

	__u32	n_stats;	/* number of u64's from ETHTOOL_GSTATS */

	__u32	n_priv_flags;

	__u32	n_stats;

	__u32	testinfo_len;

	__u32	eedump_len;	/* Size of data from ETHTOOL_GEEPROM (bytes) */

	__u32	regdump_len;	/* Size of data from ETHTOOL_GREGS (bytes) */

	__u32	eedump_len;

	__u32	regdump_len;

};



#define SOPASS_MAX	6

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