Commit 37a025e8 authored Jun 22, 2021 by Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller Jun 22, 2021

ethtool: Document behavior when module EEPROM bank attribute is omitted



The kernel assumes bank 0 when 'ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET' is sent
without 'ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_BANK'.

Document it as part of the interface documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent f5fe211d

Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst

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		@@ -1383,6 +1383,8 @@ Request contents:
		``ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_I2C_ADDRESS`` u8 page I2C address
		======================================= ====== ==========================

		If ``ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_BANK`` is not specified, bank 0 is assumed.

		Kernel response contents:

		+---------------------------------------------+--------+---------------------+