Dear Jedrzej,
Thank you for your patch.
Am 07.07.25 um 10:58 schrieb Jedrzej Jagielski:
Currently when adding devlink port it is prohibited to let
a driver name an interface on its own. In some scenarios
it would not be preferable to provide such limitation,
eg some compatibility purposes.
Re-flowing for 72 characters per line would save one line.
Add flag skip_phys_port_name_get to devlink_port_attrs struct
which indicates if devlink should not alter name of interface.
Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagiel...@intel.com>
---
v2: add skip_phys_port_name_get flag to skip changing if name
---
include/net/devlink.h | 7 ++++++-
net/devlink/port.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index 0091f23a40f7..414ae25de897 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct devlink_port_pci_sf_attrs {
* @flavour: flavour of the port
* @split: indicates if this is split port
* @splittable: indicates if the port can be split.
+ * @skip_phys_port_name_get: if set devlink doesn't alter interface name
* @lanes: maximum number of lanes the port supports. 0 value is not passed
to netlink.
* @switch_id: if the port is part of switch, this is buffer with ID,
otherwise this is NULL
* @phys: physical port attributes
@@ -87,7 +88,11 @@ struct devlink_port_pci_sf_attrs {
*/
struct devlink_port_attrs {
u8 split:1,
- splittable:1;
+ splittable:1,
+ skip_phys_port_name_get:1; /* This is for compatibility only,
+ * newly added driver/port instance
+ * should never set this.
+ */
u32 lanes;
enum devlink_port_flavour flavour;
struct netdev_phys_item_id switch_id;
diff --git a/net/devlink/port.c b/net/devlink/port.c
index 939081a0e615..bf52c8a57992 100644
--- a/net/devlink/port.c
+++ b/net/devlink/port.c
@@ -1522,6 +1522,9 @@ static int __devlink_port_phys_port_name_get(struct
devlink_port *devlink_port,
if (!devlink_port->attrs_set)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ if (devlink_port->attrs.skip_phys_port_name_get)
+ return 0;
+
switch (attrs->flavour) {
case DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PHYSICAL:
if (devlink_port->linecard)
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmen...@molgen.mpg.de>
Kind regards,
Paul