Commit ea5bacaa authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d9d6ef25
......@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ recomputed for each resulting segment. See the skbuff.h comment (section 'E')
for more details.
A driver declares its offload capabilities in netdev->hw_features; see
Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt for more. Note that a device
Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst for more. Note that a device
which only advertises NETIF_F_IP[V6]_CSUM must still obey the csum_start and
csum_offset given in the SKB; if it tries to deduce these itself in hardware
(as some NICs do) the driver should check that the values in the SKB match
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......@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Contents:
mpls-sysctl
multiqueue
netconsole
netdev-features
.. only:: subproject and html
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=====================================================
Netdev features mess and how to get out from it alive
=====================================================
......@@ -6,8 +9,8 @@ Author:
Part I: Feature sets
======================
Part I: Feature sets
====================
Long gone are the days when a network card would just take and give packets
verbatim. Today's devices add multiple features and bugs (read: offloads)
......@@ -39,8 +42,8 @@ one used internally by network core:
Part II: Controlling enabled features
=======================================
Part II: Controlling enabled features
=====================================
When current feature set (netdev->features) is to be changed, new set
is calculated and filtered by calling ndo_fix_features callback
......@@ -65,8 +68,8 @@ driver except by means of ndo_fix_features callback.
Part III: Implementation hints
================================
Part III: Implementation hints
==============================
* ndo_fix_features:
......@@ -94,8 +97,8 @@ Errors returned are not (and cannot be) propagated anywhere except dmesg.
Part IV: Features
===================
Part IV: Features
=================
For current list of features, see include/linux/netdev_features.h.
This section describes semantics of some of them.
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......@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ enum {
* Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update
* netdev_features_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c and maybe
* some feature mask #defines below. Please also describe it
* in Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt.
* in Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst.
*/
/**/NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT
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