From 37a025e83902903df658489665499a548a53423b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:50:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: Document behavior when module EEPROM bank attribute
 is omitted

The kernel assumes bank 0 when 'ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET' is sent
without 'ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_BANK'.

Document it as part of the interface documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
index 8ae644f800f0..6ea91e41593f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
@@ -1383,6 +1383,8 @@ Request contents:
   ``ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_I2C_ADDRESS``  u8      page I2C address
   =======================================  ======  ==========================
 
+If ``ETHTOOL_A_MODULE_EEPROM_BANK`` is not specified, bank 0 is assumed.
+
 Kernel response contents:
 
  +---------------------------------------------+--------+---------------------+
-- 
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