From 5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:24:12 -0800 Subject: Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 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(). ... --- Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 149 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d953ee763 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +How to Get Your Patch Accepted Into the Hwmon Subsystem +======================================================= + +This text is a collection of suggestions for people writing patches or +drivers for the hwmon subsystem. Following these suggestions will greatly +increase the chances of your change being accepted. + + +1. General +---------- + +* It should be unnecessary to mention, but please read and follow: + + - Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst + - Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst + - Documentation/process/coding-style.rst + +* Please run your patch through 'checkpatch --strict'. There should be no + errors, no warnings, and few if any check messages. If there are any + messages, please be prepared to explain. + +* Please use the standard multi-line comment style. Do not mix C and C++ + style comments in a single driver (with the exception of the SPDX license + identifier). + +* If your patch generates checkpatch errors, warnings, or check messages, + please refrain from explanations such as "I prefer that coding style". + Keep in mind that each unnecessary message helps hiding a real problem, + and a consistent coding style makes it easier for others to understand + and review the code. + +* Please test your patch thoroughly. We are not your test group. + Sometimes a patch can not or not completely be tested because of missing + hardware. In such cases, you should test-build the code on at least one + architecture. If run-time testing was not achieved, it should be written + explicitly below the patch header. + +* If your patch (or the driver) is affected by configuration options such as + CONFIG_SMP, make sure it compiles for all configuration variants. + + +2. Adding functionality to existing drivers +------------------------------------------- + +* Make sure the documentation in Documentation/hwmon/.rst is up to + date. + +* Make sure the information in Kconfig is up to date. + +* If the added functionality requires some cleanup or structural changes, split + your patch into a cleanup part and the actual addition. This makes it easier + to review your changes, and to bisect any resulting problems. + +* Never mix bug fixes, cleanup, and functional enhancements in a single patch. + + +3. New drivers +-------------- + +* Running your patch or driver file(s) through checkpatch does not mean its + formatting is clean. If unsure about formatting in your new driver, run it + through Lindent. Lindent is not perfect, and you may have to do some minor + cleanup, but it is a good start. + +* Consider adding yourself to MAINTAINERS. + +* Document the driver in Documentation/hwmon/.rst. + +* Add the driver to Kconfig and Makefile in alphabetical order. + +* Make sure that all dependencies are listed in Kconfig. + +* Please list include files in alphabetic order. + +* Please align continuation lines with '(' on the previous line. + +* Avoid forward declarations if you can. Rearrange the code if necessary. + +* Avoid macros to generate groups of sensor attributes. It not only confuses + checkpatch, but also makes it more difficult to review the code. + +* Avoid calculations in macros and macro-generated functions. While such macros + may save a line or so in the source, it obfuscates the code and makes code + review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated + than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead. + +* Limit the number of kernel log messages. In general, your driver should not + generate an error message just because a runtime operation failed. Report + errors to user space instead, using an appropriate error code. Keep in mind + that kernel error log messages not only fill up the kernel log, but also are + printed synchronously, most likely with interrupt disabled, often to a serial + console. Excessive logging can seriously affect system performance. + +* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale + and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst. + If a function is not supported by devres, consider using devm_add_action(). + +* If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages + and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it + must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported". + + Keep in mind that the detect function will run for all drivers supporting an + address if a chip is detected on that address. Unnecessary messages will just + pollute the kernel log and not provide any value. + +* Provide a detect function if and only if a chip can be detected reliably. + +* Only the following I2C addresses shall be probed: 0x18-0x1f, 0x28-0x2f, + 0x48-0x4f, 0x58, 0x5c, 0x73 and 0x77. Probing other addresses is strongly + discouraged as it is known to cause trouble with other (non-hwmon) I2C + chips. If your chip lives at an address which can't be probed then the + device will have to be instantiated explicitly (which is always better + anyway.) + +* Avoid writing to chip registers in the detect function. If you have to write, + only do it after you have already gathered enough data to be certain that the + detection is going to be successful. + + Keep in mind that the chip might not be what your driver believes it is, and + writing to it might cause a bad misconfiguration. + +* Make sure there are no race conditions in the probe function. Specifically, + completely initialize your chip and your driver first, then register with + the hwmon subsystem. + +* Use devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() or, if your driver needs a remove + function, hwmon_device_register_with_info() to register your driver with the + hwmon subsystem. Try using devm_add_action() instead of a remove function if + possible. Do not use hwmon_device_register(). + +* Your driver should be buildable as module. If not, please be prepared to + explain why it has to be built into the kernel. + +* Do not provide support for deprecated sysfs attributes. + +* Do not create non-standard attributes unless really needed. If you have to use + non-standard attributes, or you believe you do, discuss it on the mailing list + first. Either case, provide a detailed explanation why you need the + non-standard attribute(s). + Standard attributes are specified in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst. + +* When deciding which sysfs attributes to support, look at the chip's + capabilities. While we do not expect your driver to support everything the + chip may offer, it should at least support all limits and alarms. + +* Last but not least, please check if a driver for your chip already exists + before starting to write a new driver. Especially for temperature sensors, + new chips are often variants of previously released chips. In some cases, + a presumably new chip may simply have been relabeled. -- cgit v1.2.3