Merge tag 'v5.0-rc7' into patchwork

Linux 5.0-rc7

* tag 'v5.0-rc7': (1667 commits)
  Linux 5.0-rc7
  Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK
  Input: st-keyscan - fix potential zalloc NULL dereference
  Input: apanel - switch to using brightness_set_blocking()
  powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()
  efi/arm: Revert "Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()"
  arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table
  sunrpc: fix 4 more call sites that were using stack memory with a scatterlist
  include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module
  Compiler Attributes: add support for __copy (gcc >= 9)
  lib/crc32.c: mark crc32_le_base/__crc32c_le_base aliases as __pure
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: fix potential user-after-free on module unload
  x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
  i2c: bcm2835: Clear current buffer pointers and counts after a transfer
  i2c: cadence: Fix the hold bit setting
  drm: Use array_size() when creating lease
  dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA
  Revert "exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string"
  Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head"
  net: ethernet: freescale: set FEC ethtool regs version
  ...

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
index 355c6d8ef8ad..b203d1334822 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ and changeable from userspace under certain rules.
 2. Querying from userspace
 
 Both admin and operational state can be queried via the netlink
-operation RTM_GETLINK. It is also possible to subscribe to RTMGRP_LINK
-to be notified of updates. This is important for setting from userspace.
+operation RTM_GETLINK. It is also possible to subscribe to RTNLGRP_LINK
+to be notified of updates while the interface is admin up. This is
+important for setting from userspace.
 
 These values contain interface state:
 
@@ -101,8 +102,9 @@ because some driver controlled protocol establishment has to
 complete. Corresponding functions are netif_dormant_on() to set the
 flag, netif_dormant_off() to clear it and netif_dormant() to query.
 
-On device allocation, networking core sets the flags equivalent to
-netif_carrier_ok() and !netif_dormant().
+On device allocation, both flags __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER and
+__LINK_STATE_DORMANT are cleared, so the effective state is equivalent
+to netif_carrier_ok() and !netif_dormant().
 
 
 Whenever the driver CHANGES one of these flags, a workqueue event is
@@ -133,11 +135,11 @@ netif_carrier_ok() && !netif_dormant() is set by the
 driver. Afterwards, the userspace application can set IFLA_OPERSTATE
 to IF_OPER_DORMANT or IF_OPER_UP as long as the driver does not set
 netif_carrier_off() or netif_dormant_on(). Changes made by userspace
-are multicasted on the netlink group RTMGRP_LINK.
+are multicasted on the netlink group RTNLGRP_LINK.
 
 So basically a 802.1X supplicant interacts with the kernel like this:
 
--subscribe to RTMGRP_LINK
+-subscribe to RTNLGRP_LINK
 -set IFLA_LINKMODE to 1 via RTM_SETLINK
 -query RTM_GETLINK once to get initial state
 -if initial flags are not (IFF_LOWER_UP && !IFF_DORMANT), wait until