From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 14:46:15 -0800
Subject: devlink: mention reloading in devlink-params.rst
Patch-mainline: v5.6-rc1
Git-commit: 5948f85bbcb3874746702ad8e9ca1bf787005d47
References: bsc#1176447

Mention that drivers must support devlink-reload in order for driverinit
parameters to function properly

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ Parameters may be set in different confi
      - written to the device's non-volatile memory. A hard reset is required
        for it to take effect.
 
+Reloading
+---------
+
+In order for ``driverinit`` parameters to take effect, the driver must
+support reloading via the ``devlink-reload`` command. This command will
+request a reload of the device driver.
+
 Generic configuration parameters
 ================================
 The following is a list of generic configuration parameters that drivers may