kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt, branch master

docs: networking: convert netdevices.txt to ReST

2020-04-30T19:56:36+00:00

- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark lists as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support

2016-04-26T19:53:05+00:00

No more users in the tree, remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support. Adds another hole in softnet_stats struct, but better than keeping the unused collision counter around. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

2013-11-04T04:19:00+00:00

Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under memory pressure/fragmentation. This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed. As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Joby Poriyath Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Update netdev operation names

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commits d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927 ('netdev: network device operations infrastructure') and 008298231abbeb91bc7be9e8b078607b816d1a4a ('netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops') moved and renamed net device operation pointers. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commits e308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 ('netdev: Add netdev->addr_list_lock protection.') and e8a0464cc950972824e2e128028ae3db666ec1ed ('netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.') introduced more fine-grained locks. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 ('[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.') removed the automatic disabling of NAPI polling by dev_close(), and drivers must now do this themselves. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove ndo_set_multicast_list callback

2011-08-18T03:22:03+00:00

Remove no longer used operation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes

2009-06-12T16:01:47+00:00

Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

netdevice: Kill netdev->priv

2008-12-08T09:14:16+00:00

This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: note that NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecated

2007-10-10T23:52:17+00:00

Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu: > Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid > of it since it's > > 1) unnecessary; > 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice. I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Acked-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller