Hi! currently users have to find a free snapshot id to pass to the kernel when they are requesting a snapshot to be taken.
This set extends the kernel so it can allocate the id on its own and send it back to user space in a response. Jakub Kicinski (3): devlink: factor out building a snapshot notification devlink: let kernel allocate region snapshot id docs: devlink: clarify the scope of snapshot id .../networking/devlink/devlink-region.rst | 11 ++- net/core/devlink.c | 96 ++++++++++++++----- .../drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh | 13 +++ 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 2.25.4
