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| author |   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-05-01 16:44:45 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-05-01 12:24:42 -0700 |
| commit | dc67e91e7f7b2245a3a341e62217cb5e7163d60b (patch) | |
| tree | 72ea56166394b7ab6c6a7af9e736cd4fd271af06 | |
| parent | docs: networking: device drivers: convert freescale/dpaa.txt to ReST (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-dc67e91e7f7b2245a3a341e62217cb5e7163d60b.tar.xz linux-dev-dc67e91e7f7b2245a3a341e62217cb5e7163d60b.zip | |
docs: networking: device drivers: convert freescale/gianfar.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- use :field: markup;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.txt) | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.rst index ba1daea7f2e4..9c4a91d3824b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/freescale/gianfar.rst @@ -1,10 +1,15 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================== The Gianfar Ethernet Driver +=========================== -Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> -Updated: 2005-07-28 +:Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> +:Updated: 2005-07-28 -CHECKSUM OFFLOADING +Checksum Offloading +=================== The eTSEC controller (first included in parts from late 2005 like the 8548) has the ability to perform TCP, UDP, and IP checksums @@ -15,13 +20,15 @@ packets. Use ethtool to enable or disable this feature for RX and TX. VLAN +==== In order to use VLAN, please consult Linux documentation on configuring VLANs. The gianfar driver supports hardware insertion and extraction of VLAN headers, but not filtering. Filtering will be done by the kernel. -MULTICASTING +Multicasting +============ The gianfar driver supports using the group hash table on the TSEC (and the extended hash table on the eTSEC) for multicast @@ -29,13 +36,15 @@ filtering. On the eTSEC, the exact-match MAC registers are used before the hash tables. See Linux documentation on how to join multicast groups. -PADDING +Padding +======= The gianfar driver supports padding received frames with 2 bytes to align the IP header to a 16-byte boundary, when supported by hardware. -ETHTOOL +Ethtool +======= The gianfar driver supports the use of ethtool for many configuration options. You must run ethtool only on currently diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst index 7e59ee43c030..cec3415ee459 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Contents: dec/dmfe dlink/dl2k freescale/dpaa + freescale/gianfar .. only:: subproject and html |