Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] doc: add link status event pre-conditions

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 5/7/2021 10:08 AM, Min Hu (Connor) wrote:
> From: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
> 
> This patch adds link status event pre-conditions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humin29@huawei.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst b/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> index 4439df5..c3aded8 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> @@ -115,6 +115,16 @@ Runtime Config Options
>    For example::
>    -a 0000:7d:00.0,dev_caps_mask=0xF
>  
> +Link status event Pre-conditions
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Firmware 1.8.0.0 and later versions support reporting link changes to the PF.
> +Therefore, to use the LSC for the PF driver, ensure that the firmware version
> +also supports reporting link changes.
> +If the VF driver needs to support LSC, special patch must be added:
> +`<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3?h=next-20210428&id=18b6e31f8bf4ac7af7b057228f38a5a530378e4e>`_.
> +Note: The patch has been uploaded to 5.13 of the Linux kernel mainline.
> +

I am not sure about documenting a not released kernel patch for the support,
what about waiting kernel release for support?

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