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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>2022-04-18 09:42:27 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-04-18 11:00:18 +0100
commitfc9f50d5b366cd9f35bdee22fe3f8d77833cb1d8 (patch)
tree4df5da71305573153fddd8e61dba55e3ab0a955f /Documentation/networking
parentfcdc8ce23a309c26a67fc613a741d9b21a248311 (diff)
devlink: implement line card active state
Allow driver to mark a line card as active. Expose this state to the userspace over devlink netlink interface with proper notifications. 'active' state means that line card was plugged in after being provisioned. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-linecard.rst11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-linecard.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-linecard.rst
index 63ccd17f40ac..6c0b8928bc13 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-linecard.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-linecard.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ The ``devlink-linecard`` mechanism supports the following line card states:
with a line card type.
* ``provisioning_failed``: Provisioning was not successful.
* ``provisioned``: Line card slot is provisioned with a type.
+ * ``active``: Line card is powered-up and active.
The following diagram provides a general overview of ``devlink-linecard``
state transitions::
@@ -85,11 +86,11 @@ state transitions::
| |
| +-----------------------------+
| | |
- | +------------v------------+ +------------v------------+
- | | | | |
- +----- provisioning_failed | | provisioned |
- | | | | |
- | +------------^------------+ +------------|------------+
+ | +------------v------------+ +------------v------------+ +-------------------------+
+ | | | | ----> |
+ +----- provisioning_failed | | provisioned | | active |
+ | | | | <---- |
+ | +------------^------------+ +------------|------------+ +-------------------------+
| | |
| | |
| | +------------v------------+