From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Divya.Koppera@microchip.com,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/1] Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:58:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abGfSJ7nvkmbcdz8@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309190953.7c0831b7@kernel.org>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 07:09:52PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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?
Only just stumbled across your email - I haven't had a chance to look at
it yet, so can't comment.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-11 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 9:48 [PATCH net-next v12 1/1] Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-10 2:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 16:58 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2026-03-14 17:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
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