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Jacob Keller
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The devlink core recently gained support for checking whether the driver supports a flash_update parameter, via `supported_flash_update_params`. However, parameters are specified as function arguments. Adding a new parameter still requires modifying the signature of the .flash_update callback in all drivers. Convert the .flash_update function to take a new `struct devlink_flash_update_params` instead. By using this structure, and the `supported_flash_update_params` bit field, a new parameter to flash_update can be added without requiring modification to existing drivers. As before, all parameters except file_name will require driver opt-in. Because file_name is a necessary field to for the flash_update to make sense, no "SUPPORTED" bitflag is provided and it is always considered valid. All future additional parameters will require a new bit in the supported_flash_update_params bitfield. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Cc: Bin Luo <luobin9@huawei.com> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Cc: Danielle Ratson <danieller@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.