kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/rdc, branch linux-4.3.y

drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

2015-06-23T13:50:35Z

This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementation of PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point where it has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there is no value in anyone else taking over updating it either. However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate text from one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users any favours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it with fire, once and for all, to hopefully stop any further spread. No code is changed in this commit, just Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

PCI: Remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use

2014-08-12T18:15:14Z

We should prefer `struct pci_device_id` over `DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE` to meet kernel coding style guidelines. This issue was reported by checkpatch. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/): // @@ identifier i; declarer name DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE; initializer z; @@ - DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(i) + const struct pci_device_id i[] = z; // [bhelgaas: add semantic patch] Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas

r6040: remove empty MDIO bus reset function

2014-03-28T05:38:02Z

r6040_mdiobus_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus code, so let's just remove it. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

r6040: use ETH_ZLEN instead of MISR for SKB length checking

2014-01-17T00:22:54Z

Ever since this driver was merged the following code was included: if (skb->len < MISR) skb->len = MISR; MISR is defined to 0x3C which is also equivalent to ETH_ZLEN, but use ETH_ZLEN directly which is exactly what we want to be checking for. Reported-by: Marc Volovic Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

r6040: add delays in MDIO read/write polling loops

2014-01-17T00:22:54Z

On newer and faster machines (Vortex X86DX) using the r6040 driver, it was noticed that the driver was returning an error during probing traced down to being the MDIO bus probing and the inability to complete a MDIO read operation in time. It turns out that the MDIO operations on these faster machines usually complete after ~2140 iterations which is bigger than 2048 (MAC_DEF_TIMEOUT) and results in spurious timeouts depending on the system load. Update r6040_phy_read() and r6040_phy_write() to include a 1 micro second delay in each busy-looping iteration of the loop which is a much safer operation than incrementing MAC_DEF_TIMEOUT. Reported-by: Nils Koehler Reported-by: Daniel Goertzen Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: delete non-required instances of include

2014-01-16T19:53:26Z

None of these files are actually using any __init type directives and hence don't need to include . Most are just a left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to code getting copied from one driver to the next. This covers everything under drivers/net except for wireless, which has been submitted separately. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: r6040: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()

2013-10-22T06:11:52Z

The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release or on probe failure. Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Move MII out from under NET_CORE and hide it

2013-06-20T05:22:56Z

All drivers that select MII also need to select NET_CORE because MII depends on it. This is a bit ridiculous because NET_CORE is just a menu option that doesn't enable any code by itself. There is also no need for it to be a visible option, since its users all select it. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers:net: Remove unnecessary OOM messages after netdev_alloc_skb

2013-03-09T21:09:19Z

Emitting netdev_alloc_skb and netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align OOM messages is unnecessary as there is already a dump_stack after allocation failures. Other trivial changes around these removals: Convert a few comparisons of pointer to 0 to !pointer. Change flow to remove unnecessary label. Remove now unused variable. Hoist assignment from if. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

r6040: check MDIO register busy waiting result

2013-03-06T20:40:53Z

We are currently busy waiting for MDIO registers to complete their operation but we did not propagate the result back to the caller. Update r6040_phy_{read,write} to report the busy waiting result accordingly. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller