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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2019-02-05 16:52:19 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2019-02-05 16:52:19 +0000
commit68df0c30edf0b9766a2364cbf12328db3d7284e8 (patch)
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parent8bafafcc292925f75eb55c6da2815ca131999570 (diff)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
pci, pc, virtio: fixes, cleanups, features

vhost user blk discard/write zeroes features
misc cleanups and fixes all over the place

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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* remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream:
  contrib/libvhost-user: cleanup casts
  r2d: fix build on mingw
  mmap-alloc: fix hugetlbfs misaligned length in ppc64
  mmap-alloc: unfold qemu_ram_mmap()
  i386, acpi: cleanup build_facs by removing second unused argument
  fw_cfg: fix the life cycle and the name of "qemu_extra_params_fw"
  acpi: Make TPM 2.0 with TIS available as MSFT0101
  hw/virtio: Use CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI switch instead of CONFIG_PCI
  vhost-user-blk: add discard/write zeroes features support
  contrib/vhost-user-blk: fix the compilation issue
  pci/msi: export msi_is_masked()
  intel_iommu: reset intr_enabled when system reset
  intel_iommu: fix operator in vtd_switch_address_space
  hw: virtio-pci: drop DO_UPCAST
  include: update Linux headers to 4.21-rc1/5.0-rc1
  scripts/update-linux-headers.sh: adjust for Linux 4.21-rc1 (or 5.0-rc1)
  contrib/libvhost-user: switch to uint64_t
  virtio: add checks for the size of the indirect table

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h')
-rw-r--r--include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h19
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h
index 57ffcb5341..063c814278 100644
--- a/include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -91,10 +91,6 @@
  * %ETHTOOL_GSET to get the current values before making specific
  * changes and then applying them with %ETHTOOL_SSET.
  *
- * Drivers that implement set_settings() should validate all fields
- * other than @cmd that are not described as read-only or deprecated,
- * and must ignore all fields described as read-only.
- *
  * Deprecated fields should be ignored by both users and drivers.
  */
 struct ethtool_cmd {
@@ -886,7 +882,7 @@ struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec {
 	uint32_t		location;
 };
 
-/* How rings are layed out when accessing virtual functions or
+/* How rings are laid out when accessing virtual functions or
  * offloaded queues is device specific. To allow users to do flow
  * steering and specify these queues the ring cookie is partitioned
  * into a 32bit queue index with an 8 bit virtual function id.
@@ -895,7 +891,7 @@ struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec {
  * devices start supporting PCIe w/ARI. However at the moment I
  * do not know of any devices that support this so I do not reserve
  * space for this at this time. If a future patch consumes the next
- * byte it should be aware of this possiblity.
+ * byte it should be aware of this possibility.
  */
 #define ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING	0x00000000FFFFFFFFLL
 #define ETHTOOL_RX_FLOW_SPEC_RING_VF	0x000000FF00000000LL
@@ -1800,14 +1796,9 @@ enum ethtool_reset_flags {
  * rejected.
  *
  * Deprecated %ethtool_cmd fields transceiver, maxtxpkt and maxrxpkt
- * are not available in %ethtool_link_settings. Until all drivers are
- * converted to ignore them or to the new %ethtool_link_settings API,
- * for both queries and changes, users should always try
- * %ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS first, and if it fails with -ENOTSUPP stick
- * only to %ETHTOOL_GSET and %ETHTOOL_SSET consistently. If it
- * succeeds, then users should stick to %ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS and
- * %ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS (which would support drivers implementing
- * either %ethtool_cmd or %ethtool_link_settings).
+ * are not available in %ethtool_link_settings. These fields will be
+ * always set to zero in %ETHTOOL_GSET reply and %ETHTOOL_SSET will
+ * fail if any of them is set to non-zero value.
  *
  * Users should assume that all fields not marked read-only are
  * writable and subject to validation by the driver.  They should use