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docs: networking: convert netdev-features.txt to ReST
Not much to be done here: - add SPDX header; - adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups; - 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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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ recomputed for each resulting segment. See the skbuff.h comment (section 'E')
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A driver declares its offload capabilities in netdev->hw_features; see
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Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt for more. Note that a device
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Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst for more. Note that a device
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which only advertises NETIF_F_IP[V6]_CSUM must still obey the csum_start and
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csum_offset given in the SKB; if it tries to deduce these itself in hardware
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(as some NICs do) the driver should check that the values in the SKB match
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mpls-sysctl
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multiqueue
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netconsole
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netdev-features
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.. only:: subproject and html
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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=====================================================
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Netdev features mess and how to get out from it alive
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=====================================================
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@ -6,8 +9,8 @@ Author:
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Part I: Feature sets
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======================
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Part I: Feature sets
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====================
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Long gone are the days when a network card would just take and give packets
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verbatim. Today's devices add multiple features and bugs (read: offloads)
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Part II: Controlling enabled features
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=======================================
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Part II: Controlling enabled features
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=====================================
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When current feature set (netdev->features) is to be changed, new set
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is calculated and filtered by calling ndo_fix_features callback
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Part III: Implementation hints
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================================
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Part III: Implementation hints
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==============================
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* ndo_fix_features:
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Part IV: Features
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===================
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Part IV: Features
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=================
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For current list of features, see include/linux/netdev_features.h.
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This section describes semantics of some of them.
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* Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update
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* netdev_features_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c and maybe
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* some feature mask #defines below. Please also describe it
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* in Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt.
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* in Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst.
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*/
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/**/NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT
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