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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-12-09 20:20:14 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-12-09 20:20:14 -0500 |
| commit | 34f9f437104b86f6ddfa2770e2cd852846385dc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c78386b3db9dd47fd2b79efb4dcf8c1472de99e /Documentation | |
| parent | 95dc19299f741c986227ec33e23cbf9b3321f812 (diff) | |
| parent | 66e56cd46b93ef407c60adcac62cf33b06119d50 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge 'net' into 'net-next' to get the AF_PACKET bug fix that
Daniel's direct transmit changes depend upon.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt index 48b259e29e8..bad381faf03 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This file provides information, what the device node for the davinci_emac interface contains. Required properties: -- compatible: "ti,davinci-dm6467-emac"; +- compatible: "ti,davinci-dm6467-emac" or "ti,am3517-emac" - reg: Offset and length of the register set for the device - ti,davinci-ctrl-reg-offset: offset to control register - ti,davinci-ctrl-mod-reg-offset: offset to control module register diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index c01223628a8..8e48e3b1422 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ Transmission process is similar to capture as shown below. [shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the transmission socket and deallocation of all associated resources. +Socket creation and destruction is also straight forward, and is done +the same way as in capturing described in the previous paragraph: + + int fd = socket(PF_PACKET, mode, 0); + +The protocol can optionally be 0 in case we only want to transmit +via this socket, which avoids an expensive call to packet_rcv(). +In this case, you also need to bind(2) the TX_RING with sll_protocol = 0 +set. Otherwise, htons(ETH_P_ALL) or any other protocol, for example. + Binding the socket to your network interface is mandatory (with zero copy) to know the header size of frames used in the circular buffer. |