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2025-03-04net: rename netns_local to netns_immutableNicolas Dichtel
The name 'netns_local' is confusing. A following commit will export it via netlink, so let's use a more explicit name. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2024-09-03netdev_features: convert NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL to dev->netns_localAlexander Lobakin
"Interface can't change network namespaces" is rather an attribute, not a feature, and it can't be changed via Ethtool. Make it a "cold" private flag instead of a netdev_feature and free one more bit. Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2022-09-21docs: net: add an explanation of VF (and other) RepresentorsEdward Cree
There's no clear explanation of what VF Representors are for, their semantics, etc., outside of vendor docs and random conference slides. Add a document explaining Representors and defining what drivers that implement them are expected to do. Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905135557.39233-1-ecree@xilinx.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-08-31Documentation: networking: correct possessive "its"Randy Dunlap
Change occurrences of "it's" that are possessive to "its" so that they don't read as "it is". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829235414.17110-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-03-17Documentation: networking: switchdev: add missing "and" wordVladimir Oltean
Even though this is clear from the context, it is nice to actually be grammatically correct. Fixes: 0f22ad45f47c ("Documentation: networking: switchdev: clarify device driver behavior") Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-17Documentation: networking: switchdev: separate bulleted items with new lineVladimir Oltean
It looks like "make htmldocs" produces this warning: Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst:482: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Fixes: 0f22ad45f47c ("Documentation: networking: switchdev: clarify device driver behavior") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-16Documentation: networking: switchdev: fix command for static FDB entriesVladimir Oltean
The "bridge fdb add" command provided in the switchdev documentation is junk now, not only because it is syntactically incorrect and rejected by the iproute2 bridge program, but also because it was not updated in light of Arkadi Sharshevsky's radical switchdev refactoring in commit 29ab586c3d83 ("net: switchdev: Remove bridge bypass support from switchdev"). Try to explain what the intended usage pattern is with the new kernel implementation. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-16Documentation: networking: switchdev: clarify device driver behaviorFlorian Fainelli
This patch provides details on the expected behavior of switchdev enabled network devices when operating in a "stand alone" mode, as well as when being bridge members. This clarifies a number of things that recently came up during a bug fixing session on the b53 DSA switch driver. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-30docs: networking: convert switchdev.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
- add SPDX header; - use copyright symbol; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>