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authorVasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>2020-06-20 18:31:56 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-06-23 01:15:04 +0200
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devlink: Add support for board.serial_number to info_get cb.
Board serial number is a serial number, often available in PCI *Vital Product Data*. Also, update devlink-info.rst documentation file. Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
index 3fe11401b838..7572bf6de5c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ versions is generally discouraged - here, and via any other Linux API.
reported for two ports of the same device or on two hosts of
a multi-host device should be identical.
- .. note:: ``devlink-info`` API should be extended with a new field
- if devices want to report board/product serial number (often
- reported in PCI *Vital Product Data* capability).
+ * - ``board.serial_number``
+ - Board serial number of the device.
+
+ This is usually the serial number of the board, often available in
+ PCI *Vital Product Data*.
* - ``fixed``
- Group for hardware identifiers, and versions of components
@@ -201,10 +203,6 @@ Future work
The following extensions could be useful:
- - product serial number - NIC boards often get labeled with a board serial
- number rather than ASIC serial number; it'd be useful to add board serial
- numbers to the API if they can be retrieved from the device;
-
- on-disk firmware file names - drivers list the file names of firmware they
may need to load onto devices via the ``MODULE_FIRMWARE()`` macro. These,
however, are per module, rather than per device. It'd be useful to list