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authorEugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>2014-01-14 15:54:11 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-15 14:48:01 -0800
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qeth: bridgeport support - basic control
Introduce functions to assign roles and check state of bridgeport-capable HiperSocket devices, and sysfs attributes providing access to these functions from userspace. Introduce udev events emitted when the state of a bridgeport device changes. Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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+IBM s390 QDIO Ethernet Driver
+
+HiperSockets Bridge Port Support
+
+Uevents
+
+To generate the events the device must be assigned a role of either
+a primary or a secondary Bridge Port. For more information, see
+"z/VM Connectivity, SC24-6174".
+
+When run on HiperSockets Bridge Capable Port hardware, and the state
+of some configured Bridge Port device on the channel changes, a udev
+event with ACTION=CHANGE is emitted on behalf of the corresponding
+ccwgroup device. The event has the following attributes:
+
+BRIDGEPORT=statechange - indicates that the Bridge Port device changed
+ its state.
+
+ROLE={primary|secondary|none} - the role assigned to the port.
+
+STATE={active|standby|inactive} - the newly assumed state of the port.