aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/networking
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-30 18:04:04 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-30 12:56:36 -0700
commit482a4360c56a1ecb5ea54c00db647b0012d787cf (patch)
tree38392a430335963958632ccb049109c2b2edbb5c /Documentation/networking
parentdocs: networking: convert netdev-features.txt to ReST (diff)
downloadlinux-dev-482a4360c56a1ecb5ea54c00db647b0012d787cf.tar.xz
linux-dev-482a4360c56a1ecb5ea54c00db647b0012d787cf.zip
docs: networking: convert netdevices.txt to ReST
- 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 <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/can.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt)21
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.rst b/Documentation/networking/can.rst
index 2fd0b51a8c52..ff05cbd05e0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.rst
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ drivers you mainly have to deal with:
- TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller.
- RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer.
-See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt . The differences
+See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst . The differences
for writing CAN network device driver are described below:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index 4c6aa3db97d4..5a320553ffba 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ Contents:
multiqueue
netconsole
netdev-features
+ netdevices
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
index 7fec2061a334..5a85fcc80c76 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+=====================================
Network Devices, the Kernel, and You!
+=====================================
Introduction
@@ -75,11 +78,12 @@ ndo_start_xmit:
Don't use it for new drivers.
Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer),
- will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
+ will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
- Return codes:
- o NETDEV_TX_OK everything ok.
- o NETDEV_TX_BUSY Cannot transmit packet, try later
+ Return codes:
+
+ * NETDEV_TX_OK everything ok.
+ * NETDEV_TX_BUSY Cannot transmit packet, try later
Usually a bug, means queue start/stop flow control is broken in
the driver. Note: the driver must NOT put the skb in its DMA ring.
@@ -95,10 +99,13 @@ ndo_set_rx_mode:
struct napi_struct synchronization rules
========================================
napi->poll:
- Synchronization: NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit in napi->state. Device
+ Synchronization:
+ NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit in napi->state. Device
driver's ndo_stop method will invoke napi_disable() on
all NAPI instances which will do a sleeping poll on the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED napi->state bit, waiting for all pending
NAPI activity to cease.
- Context: softirq
- will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
+
+ Context:
+ softirq
+ will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.