From 28d23311ff35ac97ff20608f47c84c95d6389c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:01:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: networking: convert driver.txt to ReST - add SPDX header; - add a document title; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- .../networking/{driver.txt => driver.rst} | 22 +++++++++++-------- Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) rename Documentation/networking/{driver.txt => driver.rst} (85%) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst similarity index 85% rename from Documentation/networking/driver.txt rename to Documentation/networking/driver.rst index da59e2884130..c8f59dbda46f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -Document about softnet driver issues +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================== +Softnet Driver Issues +===================== Transmit path guidelines: @@ -8,7 +12,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines: transmit function will become busy. Instead it must maintain the queue properly. For example, - for a driver implementing scatter-gather this means: + for a driver implementing scatter-gather this means:: static netdev_tx_t drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) @@ -38,25 +42,25 @@ Transmit path guidelines: return NETDEV_TX_OK; } - And then at the end of your TX reclamation event handling: + And then at the end of your TX reclamation event handling:: if (netif_queue_stopped(dp->dev) && - TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1)) + TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1)) netif_wake_queue(dp->dev); - For a non-scatter-gather supporting card, the three tests simply become: + For a non-scatter-gather supporting card, the three tests simply become:: /* This is a hard error log it. */ if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) <= 0) - and: + and:: if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) == 0) - and: + and:: if (netif_queue_stopped(dp->dev) && - TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > 0) + TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > 0) netif_wake_queue(dp->dev); 2) An ndo_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a @@ -86,7 +90,7 @@ Close/stop guidelines: 1) After the ndo_stop routine has been called, the hardware must not receive or transmit any data. All in flight packets must - be aborted. If necessary, poll or wait for completion of + be aborted. If necessary, poll or wait for completion of any reset commands. 2) The ndo_stop routine will be called by unregister_netdevice diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 55746038a7e9..313f66900bce 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Contents: decnet defza dns_resolver + driver .. only:: subproject and html -- 2.39.5