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If a device does not have a pnetid, users can set a temporary pnetid for said device in the pnet table. This patch reworks the pnet table to make it more flexible. Multiple entries with the same pnetid but differing devices are now allowed. Additionally, the netlink interface now sends each mapping from pnetid to device separately to the user while maintaining the message format existing applications might expect. Also, the SMC data structure for ib devices already has a pnetid attribute. So, it is used to store the user defined pnetids. As a result, the pnet table entries are only used for netdevs. Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.ibm.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.