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Message-Id: <20250922090851.719913-7-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:08:51 -0700
From: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com>
To: jgg@...pe.ca,
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	Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 6/6] bnxt_fwctl: Add documentation entries

Add bnxt_fwctl to the driver and fwctl documentation pages.

Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com>
---
 .../userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst        | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst   |  1 +
 Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..78f24004af02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+================
+fwctl bnxt driver
+================
+
+:Author: Pavan Chebbi
+
+Overview
+========
+
+BNXT driver makes a fwctl service available through an auxiliary_device.
+The bnxt_fwctl driver binds to this device and registers itself with the
+fwctl subsystem.
+
+The bnxt_fwctl driver is agnostic to the device firmware internals. It
+uses the ULP conduit provided by bnxt to send requests (HWRM commands)
+to firmware.
+
+bnxt_fwctl User API
+==================
+
+Each RPC request contains a message request structure (HWRM input) its,
+legth, optional request timeout, and dma buffers' information if the
+command needs any DMA. The request is then put together with the request
+data and sent through bnxt's message queue to the firmware, and the results
+are returned to the caller.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst
index a74eab8d14c6..e9f345797ca0 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ fwctl User API
 .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/fwctl.h
 .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/mlx5.h
 .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/pds.h
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h
 
 sysfs Class
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst
index 316ac456ad3b..c0630d27afeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ to securely construct and execute RPCs inside device firmware.
    fwctl
    fwctl-cxl
    pds_fwctl
+   bnxt_fwctl
-- 
2.39.1