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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-05 20:13:21 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan. 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal Kulkarni. 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading, from Po Liu. 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni. 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian Vazquez. 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from Yonghong Song. 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit. 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson. 10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell. 11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko. 12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav Gupta. 13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry Yakunin. 14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov. 15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine Tenart. 16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song. 17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov. 18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan. 19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck. 20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov. 21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal. 22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree. 23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce. 24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni. 25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski. 26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET. 27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel. 28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki. 29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig. 30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn. 31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei. 32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin. 33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin. 34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal. 35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano Brivio. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits) net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure hso: fix bailout in error case of probe ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test mptcp: be careful on subflow creation selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find() net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit" ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================
+DM9000 Network driver
+=====================
+
+Copyright 2008 Simtec Electronics,
+
+ Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk> <ben-linux@fluff.org>
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+This file describes how to use the DM9000 platform-device based network driver
+that is contained in the files drivers/net/dm9000.c and drivers/net/dm9000.h.
+
+The driver supports three DM9000 variants, the DM9000E which is the first chip
+supported as well as the newer DM9000A and DM9000B devices. It is currently
+maintained and tested by Ben Dooks, who should be CC: to any patches for this
+driver.
+
+
+Defining the platform device
+----------------------------
+
+The minimum set of resources attached to the platform device are as follows:
+
+ 1) The physical address of the address register
+ 2) The physical address of the data register
+ 3) The IRQ line the device's interrupt pin is connected to.
+
+These resources should be specified in that order, as the ordering of the
+two address regions is important (the driver expects these to be address
+and then data).
+
+An example from arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/mach-bast.c is::
+
+ static struct resource bast_dm9k_resource[] = {
+ [0] = {
+ .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000,
+ .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 3,
+ .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
+ },
+ [1] = {
+ .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40,
+ .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40 + 0x3f,
+ .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
+ },
+ [2] = {
+ .start = IRQ_DM9000,
+ .end = IRQ_DM9000,
+ .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_IRQ_HIGHLEVEL,
+ }
+ };
+
+ static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = {
+ .name = "dm9000",
+ .id = 0,
+ .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource),
+ .resource = bast_dm9k_resource,
+ };
+
+Note the setting of the IRQ trigger flag in bast_dm9k_resource[2].flags,
+as this will generate a warning if it is not present. The trigger from
+the flags field will be passed to request_irq() when registering the IRQ
+handler to ensure that the IRQ is setup correctly.
+
+This shows a typical platform device, without the optional configuration
+platform data supplied. The next example uses the same resources, but adds
+the optional platform data to pass extra configuration data::
+
+ static struct dm9000_plat_data bast_dm9k_platdata = {
+ .flags = DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY,
+ };
+
+ static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = {
+ .name = "dm9000",
+ .id = 0,
+ .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource),
+ .resource = bast_dm9k_resource,
+ .dev = {
+ .platform_data = &bast_dm9k_platdata,
+ }
+ };
+
+The platform data is defined in include/linux/dm9000.h and described below.
+
+
+Platform data
+-------------
+
+Extra platform data for the DM9000 can describe the IO bus width to the
+device, whether or not an external PHY is attached to the device and
+the availability of an external configuration EEPROM.
+
+The flags for the platform data .flags field are as follows:
+
+DM9000_PLATF_8BITONLY
+
+ The IO should be done with 8bit operations.
+
+DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY
+
+ The IO should be done with 16bit operations.
+
+DM9000_PLATF_32BITONLY
+
+ The IO should be done with 32bit operations.
+
+DM9000_PLATF_EXT_PHY
+
+ The chip is connected to an external PHY.
+
+DM9000_PLATF_NO_EEPROM
+
+ This can be used to signify that the board does not have an
+ EEPROM, or that the EEPROM should be hidden from the user.
+
+DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY
+
+ Switch to using the simpler PHY polling method which does not
+ try and read the MII PHY state regularly. This is only available
+ when using the internal PHY. See the section on link state polling
+ for more information.
+
+ The config symbol DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL, Kconfig entry
+ "Force simple NSR based PHY polling" allows this flag to be
+ forced on at build time.
+
+
+PHY Link state polling
+----------------------
+
+The driver keeps track of the link state and informs the network core
+about link (carrier) availability. This is managed by several methods
+depending on the version of the chip and on which PHY is being used.
+
+For the internal PHY, the original (and currently default) method is
+to read the MII state, either when the status changes if we have the
+necessary interrupt support in the chip or every two seconds via a
+periodic timer.
+
+To reduce the overhead for the internal PHY, there is now the option
+of using the DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL config, or DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY
+platform data option to read the summary information without the
+expensive MII accesses. This method is faster, but does not print
+as much information.
+
+When using an external PHY, the driver currently has to poll the MII
+link status as there is no method for getting an interrupt on link change.
+
+
+DM9000A / DM9000B
+-----------------
+
+These chips are functionally similar to the DM9000E and are supported easily
+by the same driver. The features are:
+
+ 1) Interrupt on internal PHY state change. This means that the periodic
+ polling of the PHY status may be disabled on these devices when using
+ the internal PHY.
+
+ 2) TCP/UDP checksum offloading, which the driver does not currently support.
+
+
+ethtool
+-------
+
+The driver supports the ethtool interface for access to the driver
+state information, the PHY state and the EEPROM.