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Documentation: devlink: extend reload-reinit description
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Be more explicit about devlink entities that may stay and that have to
be removed during reload reinit action.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Jiri Pirko authored and Paolo Abeni committed Nov 30, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -22,8 +22,17 @@ By default ``driver_reinit`` action is selected.
* - ``driver-reinit``
- Devlink driver entities re-initialization, including applying
new values to devlink entities which are used during driver
load such as ``devlink-params`` in configuration mode
``driverinit`` or ``devlink-resources``
load which are:

* ``devlink-params`` in configuration mode ``driverinit``
* ``devlink-resources``

Other devlink entities may stay over the re-initialization:

* ``devlink-health-reporter``
* ``devlink-region``

The rest of the devlink entities have to be removed and readded.
* - ``fw_activate``
- Firmware activate. Activates new firmware if such image is stored and
pending activation. If no limitation specified this action may involve
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