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Add the ability to flash the modules' firmware by implementing the interface between the user space and the kernel. Example from a succeeding implementation: # ethtool --flash-module-firmware swp40 file test.bin Transceiver module firmware flashing started for device swp40 Transceiver module firmware flashing in progress for device swp40 Progress: 99% Transceiver module firmware flashing completed for device swp40 In addition, add infrastructure that allows modules to set socket-specific private data. This ensures that when a socket is closed from user space during the flashing process, the right socket halts sending notifications to user space until the work item is completed. Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.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 reStructuredText 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.