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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/wifi/ray_cs.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/wifi/ray_cs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9a46d1ae8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/wifi/ray_cs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +========================= +Raylink wireless LAN card +========================= + +September 21, 1999 + +Copyright |copy| 1998 Corey Thomas (corey@world.std.com) + +This file is the documentation for the Raylink Wireless LAN card driver for +Linux. The Raylink wireless LAN card is a PCMCIA card which provides IEEE +802.11 compatible wireless network connectivity at 1 and 2 megabits/second. +See http://www.raytheon.com/micro/raylink/ for more information on the Raylink +card. This driver is in early development and does have bugs. See the known +bugs and limitations at the end of this document for more information. +This driver also works with WebGear's Aviator 2.4 and Aviator Pro +wireless LAN cards. + +As of kernel 2.3.18, the ray_cs driver is part of the Linux kernel +source. My web page for the development of ray_cs is at +http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html +and I can be emailed at corey@world.std.com + +The kernel driver is based on ray_cs-1.62.tgz + +The driver at my web page is intended to be used as an add on to +David Hinds pcmcia package. All the command line parameters are +available when compiled as a module. When built into the kernel, only +the essid= string parameter is available via the kernel command line. +This will change after the method of sorting out parameters for all +the PCMCIA drivers is agreed upon. If you must have a built in driver +with nondefault parameters, they can be edited in +/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/ray_cs.c. Searching for module_param +will find them all. + +Information on card services is available at: + + http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ + + +Card services user programs are still required for PCMCIA devices. +pcmcia-cs-3.1.1 or greater is required for the kernel version of +the driver. + +Currently, ray_cs is not part of David Hinds card services package, +so the following magic is required. + +At the end of the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file, add the line: +source ./ray_cs.opts +This will make card services read the ray_cs.opts file +when starting. Create the file /etc/pcmcia/ray_cs.opts containing the +following:: + + #### start of /etc/pcmcia/ray_cs.opts ################### + # Configuration options for Raylink Wireless LAN PCMCIA card + device "ray_cs" + class "network" module "misc/ray_cs" + + card "RayLink PC Card WLAN Adapter" + manfid 0x01a6, 0x0000 + bind "ray_cs" + + module "misc/ray_cs" opts "" + #### end of /etc/pcmcia/ray_cs.opts ##################### + + +To join an existing network with +different parameters, contact the network administrator for the +configuration information, and edit /etc/pcmcia/ray_cs.opts. +Add the parameters below between the empty quotes. + +Parameters for ray_cs driver which may be specified in ray_cs.opts: + +=============== =============== ============================================= +bc integer 0 = normal mode (802.11 timing), + 1 = slow down inter frame timing to allow + operation with older breezecom access + points. + +beacon_period integer beacon period in Kilo-microseconds, + + legal values = must be integer multiple + of hop dwell + + default = 256 + +country integer 1 = USA (default), + 2 = Europe, + 3 = Japan, + 4 = Korea, + 5 = Spain, + 6 = France, + 7 = Israel, + 8 = Australia + +essid string ESS ID - network name to join + + string with maximum length of 32 chars + default value = "ADHOC_ESSID" + +hop_dwell integer hop dwell time in Kilo-microseconds + + legal values = 16,32,64,128(default),256 + +irq_mask integer linux standard 16 bit value 1bit/IRQ + + lsb is IRQ 0, bit 1 is IRQ 1 etc. + Used to restrict choice of IRQ's to use. + Recommended method for controlling + interrupts is in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts + +net_type integer 0 (default) = adhoc network, + 1 = infrastructure + +phy_addr string string containing new MAC address in + hex, must start with x eg + x00008f123456 + +psm integer 0 = continuously active, + 1 = power save mode (not useful yet) + +pc_debug integer (0-5) larger values for more verbose + logging. Replaces ray_debug. + +ray_debug integer Replaced with pc_debug + +ray_mem_speed integer defaults to 500 + +sniffer integer 0 = not sniffer (default), + 1 = sniffer which can be used to record all + network traffic using tcpdump or similar, + but no normal network use is allowed. + +translate integer 0 = no translation (encapsulate frames), + 1 = translation (RFC1042/802.1) +=============== =============== ============================================= + +More on sniffer mode: + +tcpdump does not understand 802.11 headers, so it can't +interpret the contents, but it can record to a file. This is only +useful for debugging 802.11 lowlevel protocols that are not visible to +linux. If you want to watch ftp xfers, or do similar things, you +don't need to use sniffer mode. Also, some packet types are never +sent up by the card, so you will never see them (ack, rts, cts, probe +etc.) There is a simple program (showcap) included in the ray_cs +package which parses the 802.11 headers. + +Known Problems and missing features + + Does not work with non x86 + + Does not work with SMP + + Support for defragmenting frames is not yet debugged, and in + fact is known to not work. I have never encountered a net set + up to fragment, but still, it should be fixed. + + The ioctl support is incomplete. The hardware address cannot be set + using ifconfig yet. If a different hardware address is needed, it may + be set using the phy_addr parameter in ray_cs.opts. This requires + a card insertion to take effect. |