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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt | 7 |
4 files changed, 31 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 5fae7704daab..1a5ab21bcca5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1435,6 +1435,11 @@ mtu - INTEGER Default Maximum Transfer Unit Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum) +ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN + If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, + which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. + Default: 0 + router_probe_interval - INTEGER Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described in RFC4191. @@ -1455,6 +1460,13 @@ router_solicitations - INTEGER routers are present. Default: 3 +use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN + When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations + routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses + configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4). + + Default: false + use_tempaddr - INTEGER Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index e655e2453c98..5fddefa69baf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ struct plat_stmmacenet_data { void (*free)(struct platform_device *pdev, void *priv); int (*init)(struct platform_device *pdev, void *priv); void (*exit)(struct platform_device *pdev, void *priv); - void *custom_cfg; - void *custom_data; void *bsp_priv; }; @@ -186,8 +184,6 @@ Where: which will be stored in bsp_priv, and then passed to init and exit callbacks. init/exit callbacks should not use or modify platform data. - o custom_cfg/custom_data: this is a custom configuration that can be passed - while initializing the resources. o bsp_priv: another private pointer. For MDIO bus The we have: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index c5d7ade10ff2..9825f32a8634 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt @@ -279,8 +279,18 @@ and unknown unicast packets to all ports in domain, if allowed by port's current STP state. The switch driver, knowing which ports are within which vlan L2 domain, can program the switch device for flooding. The packet should also be sent to the port netdev for processing by the bridge driver. The -bridge should not reflood the packet to the same ports the device flooded. -XXX: the mechanism to avoid duplicate flood packets is being discuseed. +bridge should not reflood the packet to the same ports the device flooded, +otherwise there will be duplicate packets on the wire. + +To avoid duplicate packets, the device/driver should mark a packet as already +forwarded using skb->offload_fwd_mark. The same mark is set on the device +ports in the domain using dev->offload_fwd_mark. If the skb->offload_fwd_mark +is non-zero and matches the forwarding egress port's dev->skb_mark, the kernel +will drop the skb right before transmit on the egress port, with the +understanding that the device already forwarded the packet on same egress port. +The driver can use switchdev_port_fwd_mark_set() to set a globally unique mark +for port's dev->offload_fwd_mark, based on the port's parent ID (switch ID) and +a group ifindex. It is possible for the switch device to not handle flooding and push the packets up to the bridge driver for flooding. This is not ideal as the number diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt index 5f0922613f1a..a977339fbe0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt @@ -359,6 +359,13 @@ the requested fine-grained filtering for incoming packets is not supported, the driver may time stamp more than just the requested types of packets. +Drivers are free to use a more permissive configuration than the requested +configuration. It is expected that drivers should only implement directly the +most generic mode that can be supported. For example if the hardware can +support HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT, then it should generally always upscale +HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_L2_SYNC_MESSAGE, and so forth, as HWTSTAMP_FILTER_V2_EVENT +is more generic (and more useful to applications). + A driver which supports hardware time stamping shall update the struct with the actual, possibly more permissive configuration. If the requested packets cannot be time stamped, then nothing should be |