From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0507724679F; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773108595; cv=none; b=Fv6t5FDjR9+HXp/9Qmm90KnzPdyYWeoRxaA8PL8fOUs9ynnM3F27VdB4QmNRdfggQH0TDpuimxhLEtSxLSO8WuGWUF9FoId016UCv39FBFdiI0EBUUWg5rBSyysm27fwNvffFee21NThZZ2sxTU9YwcxiukSRaQLyYQdNF2vk1Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773108595; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QoQhFxePdxZV0mbq93f7befZaXb8GMtKyfIz6w9tfAE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=kJQ8JEJ9euIvrcd3WdPhW7sk7zX4BG9G4UMenXztlRkKMVRo8440mSX4kwFJWQPMza33GPWsp79VI3hg6bet9ECHxt4aQJFI4MqMFPm9imrlEunEqbBZ+3YX/kkgTAJwPuMAptiNEzgWWQ/2DL81CvbX/5Pt01sABWhRZoMjjAE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ijJNQ69u; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ijJNQ69u" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C252FC19423; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:09:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1773108594; bh=QoQhFxePdxZV0mbq93f7befZaXb8GMtKyfIz6w9tfAE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ijJNQ69uHj55G5ZomNV0G97fSfkTVBcaYBHp/tsbheFd4qMHDRi0JuPw6ivjIM+WI btyahAs+NpQUkCTh3Wpvg1UWKCT7RhJPagIviLj/l5kOT5s9V/m2VOqAJhPYmSyK4B lVOKgnhMxW5J2epjnegKC9lYRyW2z41Zn1envDufWBl5WxB1C83SXeowsktKxP5lkY tXSHZ+fC9uzv9ozNkO+nNpSNbZXmdwt12886aVTtFYUpVRdvf/HidfEYXRp/S+bV7O yMo374d4OoM0fc4R3+yA9F6Bk96e+NFmj1Q7guS7AnM1SQyBlx956hl8xfamz2uH4R DDg51Ows1JdYg== Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 19:09:52 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Andrew Lunn , Russell King Cc: Oleksij Rempel , Heiner Kallweit , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Florian Fainelli , Maxime Chevallier , Kory Maincent , Lukasz Majewski , Jonathan Corbet , Donald Hunter , Vadim Fedorenko , Jiri Pirko , Vladimir Oltean , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend , kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Divya.Koppera@microchip.com, Sabrina Dubroca , Stanislav Fomichev Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/1] Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API Message-ID: <20260309190953.7c0831b7@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260304094811.2779953-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de> References: <20260304094811.2779953-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 10:48:11 +0100 Oleksij Rempel wrote: > Introduce a new document, flow_control.rst, to provide a comprehensive > guide on Ethernet Flow Control in Linux. The guide explains how flow > control works, how autonegotiation resolves pause capabilities, and how > to configure it using ethtool and Netlink. > > In parallel, document the pause and pause-stat attributes in the > ethtool.yaml netlink spec. This enables the ynl tool to generate > kernel-doc comments for the corresponding enums in the UAPI header, > making the C interface self-documenting. > > Finally, replace the legacy flow control section in phy.rst with a > reference to the new document and add pointers in the relevant C source > files. Russell, Andrew, does this doc look good to you?