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2024-10-10net-shapers: implement NL get operationPaolo Abeni
Introduce the basic infrastructure to implement the net-shaper core functionality. Each network devices carries a net-shaper cache, the NL get() operation fetches the data from such cache. The cache is initially empty, will be fill by the set()/group() operation implemented later and is destroyed at device cleanup time. The net_shaper_fill_handle(), net_shaper_ctx_init(), and net_shaper_generic_pre() implementations handle generic index type attributes, despite the current caller always pass a constant value to avoid more noise in later patches using them with different attributes. Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ddd10fd645a9367803ad02fca4a5664ea5ace170.1728460186.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-10-29wimax: move out to stagingArnd Bergmann
There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether. As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack. NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the www.linuxwimax.org site had already shut down earlier. WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks ("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the only driver using the kernel's wimax stack. Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order to make it possible to port patches across the move. Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing list and website. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2020-09-23net: phy: Document core PHY structuresAndrew Lunn
Add kerneldoc for the core PHY data structures, a few inline functions and exported functions which are not already documented. v2 Typos g/phy/PHY/s Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-05sfp: add documentation for kernel APIsRussell King
Add kernel-doc documentation for sfp kernel APIs, and link it into the networking kapi documentation under "Network device support". Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-05phylink: add documentation for kernel APIsRussell King
Add kernel-doc documentation for phylink kernel APIs, and link it into the networking kapi documentation under "Network device support". Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-16docs-rst: convert networking book to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>