devlink: Add new "enable_vnet" generic device param
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:24:17 +0000 (16:24 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:34:21 +0000 (14:34 +0100)
commit076b2a9dbb28e8b3d9a264a8bca664794255d448
tree65c6bed61eefbac9e619d2aae3d4d538c975b25f
parent8ddaabee3c7994854841a9b097fd94538126c12c
devlink: Add new "enable_vnet" generic device param

Add new device generic parameter to enable/disable creation of
VDPA net auxiliary device and associated device functionality
in the devlink instance.

User who prefers to disable such functionality can disable it using below
example.

$ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 \
              name enable_vnet value false cmode driverinit
$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:06:00.0

At this point devlink instance do not create auxiliary device for the
VDPA net functionality.

Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
include/net/devlink.h
net/core/devlink.c