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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-02-06 16:17:22 +0100
committerMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>2020-02-28 14:52:36 +0100
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parent6lowpan: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff)
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docs: networking: convert 6lowpan.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - use document title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt)29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst
index 2e5a939d7e6f..e70a6520cc33 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst
@@ -1,37 +1,40 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces:
+==============================================
+Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces
+==============================================
All 6lowpan able net devices, means all interfaces with ARPHRD_6LOWPAN,
must have "struct lowpan_priv" placed at beginning of netdev_priv.
-The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by:
+The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by::
dev->priv_size = LOWPAN_PRIV_SIZE(LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA);
Where LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA is sizeof linklayer 6lowpan private data struct.
-To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast:
+To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast::
lowpan_priv(dev)-priv;
to your LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA structure.
-Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run:
+Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run::
lowpan_netdev_setup(dev, LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR);
wheres LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR is a define for your 6LoWPAN linklayer type of
enum lowpan_lltypes.
-Example to evaluate the private usually you can do:
+Example to evaluate the private usually you can do::
-static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar *
-lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev)
-{
+ static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar *
+ lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev)
+ {
return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv;
-}
+ }
-switch (dev->type) {
-case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN:
+ switch (dev->type) {
+ case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN:
lowpan_priv = lowpan_priv(dev);
/* do great stuff which is ARPHRD_6LOWPAN related */
switch (lowpan_priv->lltype) {
@@ -42,8 +45,8 @@ case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN:
...
}
break;
-...
-}
+ ...
+ }
In case of generic 6lowpan branch ("net/6lowpan") you can remove the check
on ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, because you can be sure that these function are called
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index d07d9855dcd3..683bcbfbed75 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Contents:
tls
tls-offload
nfc
+ 6lowpan
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