mlxsw: Register physical ports as a devlink resource
The switch ASIC has a limited capacity of physical ('flavour physical'
in devlink terminology) ports that it can support. While each system is
brought up with a different number of ports, this number can be
increased via splitting up to the ASIC's limit.
Expose physical ports as a devlink resource so that user space will have
visibility to the maximum number of ports that can be supported and the
current occupancy.
In addition, add a "Generic Resources" section in devlink-resource
documentation so the different drivers will be aligned by the same resource
name when exposing to user space.
Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c
index 738d434..72ea798 100644
--- a/net/core/devlink.c
+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
@@ -8617,6 +8617,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devlink_dpipe_table_unregister);
* @resource_id: resource's id
* @parent_resource_id: resource's parent id
* @size_params: size parameters
+ *
+ * Generic resources should reuse the same names across drivers.
+ * Please see the generic resources list at:
+ * Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-resource.rst
*/
int devlink_resource_register(struct devlink *devlink,
const char *resource_name,
