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IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99 defines a MAC Merge sublayer which contains an Express MAC and a Preemptible MAC. Both MACs are hidden to higher and lower layers and visible as a single MAC (packet classification to eMAC or pMAC on TX is done based on priority; classification on RX is done based on SFD). For devices which support a MAC Merge sublayer, it is desirable to retrieve individual packet counters from the eMAC and the pMAC, as well as aggregate statistics (their sum). Introduce a new ETHTOOL_A_STATS_SRC attribute which is part of the policy of ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET and, and an ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STATS_SRC which is part of the policy of ETHTOOL_MSG_PAUSE_GET (accepted when ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS is set in the common ethtool header). Both of these take values from enum ethtool_mac_stats_src, defaulting to "aggregate" in the absence of the attribute. Existing drivers do not need to pay attention to this enum which was added to all driver-facing structures, just the ones which report the MAC merge layer as supported. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.