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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>
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@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ drivers you mainly have to deal with:
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- TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller.
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- RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer.
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See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt . The differences
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See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst . The differences
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for writing CAN network device driver are described below:
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multiqueue
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netconsole
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netdev-features
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netdevices
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.. only:: subproject and html
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@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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=====================================
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Network Devices, the Kernel, and You!
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=====================================
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Introduction
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Don't use it for new drivers.
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Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer),
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will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
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will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
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Return codes:
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o NETDEV_TX_OK everything ok.
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o NETDEV_TX_BUSY Cannot transmit packet, try later
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Return codes:
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* NETDEV_TX_OK everything ok.
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* NETDEV_TX_BUSY Cannot transmit packet, try later
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Usually a bug, means queue start/stop flow control is broken in
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the driver. Note: the driver must NOT put the skb in its DMA ring.
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@ -95,10 +99,13 @@ ndo_set_rx_mode:
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struct napi_struct synchronization rules
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========================================
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napi->poll:
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Synchronization: NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit in napi->state. Device
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Synchronization:
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NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit in napi->state. Device
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driver's ndo_stop method will invoke napi_disable() on
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all NAPI instances which will do a sleeping poll on the
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NAPI_STATE_SCHED napi->state bit, waiting for all pending
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NAPI activity to cease.
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Context: softirq
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will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
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Context:
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softirq
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will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
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