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authorShay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>2022-12-06 19:51:14 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-12-08 05:09:18 +0100
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devlink: Move devlink port function hw_addr attr documentation
devlink port function hw_addr attr documentation is in mlx5 specific file while there is nothing mlx5 specific about it. Move it to devlink-port.rst. Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst
index 98557c2ab1c1..2c637f4aae8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst
@@ -119,9 +119,49 @@ function device to the driver. For subfunctions, this means user should
configure port function attribute before activating the port function.
A user may set the hardware address of the function using
-'devlink port function set hw_addr' command. For Ethernet port function
+`devlink port function set hw_addr` command. For Ethernet port function
this means a MAC address.
+Function attributes
+===================
+
+MAC address setup
+-----------------
+The configured MAC address of the PCI VF/SF will be used by netdevice and rdma
+device created for the PCI VF/SF.
+
+- Get the MAC address of the VF identified by its unique devlink port index::
+
+ $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/2
+ pci/0000:06:00.0/2: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0vf1 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 1
+ function:
+ hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00
+
+- Set the MAC address of the VF identified by its unique devlink port index::
+
+ $ devlink port function set pci/0000:06:00.0/2 hw_addr 00:11:22:33:44:55
+
+ $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/2
+ pci/0000:06:00.0/2: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0vf1 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 1
+ function:
+ hw_addr 00:11:22:33:44:55
+
+- Get the MAC address of the SF identified by its unique devlink port index::
+
+ $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/32768
+ pci/0000:06:00.0/32768: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0sf88 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 88
+ function:
+ hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00
+
+- Set the MAC address of the SF identified by its unique devlink port index::
+
+ $ devlink port function set pci/0000:06:00.0/32768 hw_addr 00:00:00:00:88:88
+
+ $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/32768
+ pci/0000:06:00.0/32768: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0sf88 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 88
+ function:
+ hw_addr 00:00:00:00:88:88
+
Subfunction
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