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Arthur Kiyanovski authored
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850175 This commit adds a mechanism for exposing different device properties via ethtool's priv_flags. The strings are provided by the device and copied to user space through the driver. In this commit we: Add commands, structs and defines necessary for handling extra properties Add functions for: Allocation/destruction of a buffer for extra properties strings. Retreival of extra properties strings and flags from the network device. Handle the allocation of a buffer for extra properties strings. * Initialize buffer with extra properties strings from the network device at driver startup. Use ethtool's get_priv_flags to expose extra properties of the ENA device Signed-off-by: Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Sameeh Jubran <sameehj@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (cherry picked from commit 315c28d2) Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Acked-by: Khaled Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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