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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/README.ipw22002
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/bonding.txt68
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dccp.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt22
5 files changed, 81 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
index 4f2a40f1dbc..80c728522c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
+++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Where the supported parameter are:
driver. If disabled, the driver will not attempt to scan
for and associate to a network until it has been configured with
one or more properties for the target network, for example configuring
- the network SSID. Default is 1 (auto-associate)
+ the network SSID. Default is 0 (do not auto-associate)
Example: % modprobe ipw2200 associate=0
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 688dfe1e6b7..5ede7473b42 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -194,6 +194,48 @@ or, for backwards compatibility, the option value. E.g.,
The parameters are as follows:
+ad_select
+
+ Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. The
+ possible values and their effects are:
+
+ stable or 0
+
+ The active aggregator is chosen by largest aggregate
+ bandwidth.
+
+ Reselection of the active aggregator occurs only when all
+ slaves of the active aggregator are down or the active
+ aggregator has no slaves.
+
+ This is the default value.
+
+ bandwidth or 1
+
+ The active aggregator is chosen by largest aggregate
+ bandwidth. Reselection occurs if:
+
+ - A slave is added to or removed from the bond
+
+ - Any slave's link state changes
+
+ - Any slave's 802.3ad association state changes
+
+ - The bond's adminstrative state changes to up
+
+ count or 2
+
+ The active aggregator is chosen by the largest number of
+ ports (slaves). Reselection occurs as described under the
+ "bandwidth" setting, above.
+
+ The bandwidth and count selection policies permit failover of
+ 802.3ad aggregations when partial failure of the active aggregator
+ occurs. This keeps the aggregator with the highest availability
+ (either in bandwidth or in number of ports) active at all times.
+
+ This option was added in bonding version 3.4.0.
+
arp_interval
Specifies the ARP link monitoring frequency in milliseconds.
@@ -551,6 +593,16 @@ num_grat_arp
affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for
bonding version 3.3.0.
+num_unsol_na
+
+ Specifies the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements
+ to be issued after a failover event. One unsolicited NA is issued
+ immediately after the failover.
+
+ The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option
+ affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for
+ bonding version 3.4.0.
+
primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the
@@ -922,17 +974,19 @@ USERCTL=no
NETMASK, NETWORK and BROADCAST) to match your network configuration.
For later versions of initscripts, such as that found with Fedora
-7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, and,
-indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0
+7 (or later) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible,
+and, indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0
file, e.g. a line of the format:
-BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.254"
+BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=192.168.1.254"
will configure the bond with the specified options. The options
specified in BONDING_OPTS are identical to the bonding module parameters
-except for the arp_ip_target field. Each target should be included as a
-separate option and should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be
-added to the list of queried targets, e.g.,
+except for the arp_ip_target field when using versions of initscripts older
+than and 8.57 (Fedora 8) and 8.45.19 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2). When
+using older versions each target should be included as a separate option and
+should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be added to the list of
+queried targets, e.g.,
arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.1 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.2
@@ -940,7 +994,7 @@ added to the list of queried targets, e.g.,
options via BONDING_OPTS, it is not necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/modprobe.conf.
- For older versions of initscripts that do not support
+ For even older versions of initscripts that do not support
BONDING_OPTS, it is necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf (or
/etc/modprobe.conf, depending upon your distro) to load the bonding module
with your desired options when the bond0 interface is brought up. The
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
index 39131a3c78f..43df4487379 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ can be set before calling bind().
DCCP_SOCKOPT_GET_CUR_MPS is read-only and retrieves the current maximum packet
size (application payload size) in bytes, see RFC 4340, section 14.
+DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS is also read-only and returns the list of CCIDs
+supported by the endpoint (see include/linux/dccp.h for symbolic constants).
+The caller needs to provide a sufficiently large (> 2) array of type uint8_t.
+
DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVER_TIMEWAIT enables the server (listening socket) to hold
timewait state when closing the connection (RFC 4340, 8.3). The usual case is
that the closing server sends a CloseReq, whereupon the client holds timewait
@@ -121,9 +125,6 @@ send_ndp = 1
send_ackvec = 1
Whether or not to send Ack Vector options (sec. 11.5).
-ack_ratio = 2
- The default Ack Ratio (sec. 11.3) to use.
-
tx_ccid = 2
Default CCID for the sender-receiver half-connection.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index d84932650fd..c7712787933 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ min_adv_mss - INTEGER
The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
never be lower than this setting.
+rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER
+ The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold.
+ Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to
+ a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times
+ will have its route caching disabled
+
IP Fragmentation:
ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
index a96989a8ff3..dcf31648414 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
@@ -131,11 +131,13 @@ are expected to do this during initialization.
r = zd_reg2alpha2(mac->regdomain, alpha2);
if (!r)
- regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, alpha2, NULL);
+ regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, alpha2);
Example code - drivers providing a built in regulatory domain:
--------------------------------------------------------------
+[NOTE: This API is not currently available, it can be added when required]
+
If you have regulatory information you can obtain from your
driver and you *need* to use this we let you build a regulatory domain
structure and pass it to the wireless core. To do this you should
@@ -167,7 +169,6 @@ struct ieee80211_regdomain mydriver_jp_regdom = {
Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
- int r;
struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd;
int size_of_regd;
int num_rules = mydriver_jp_regdom.n_reg_rules;
@@ -178,17 +179,12 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
rd = kzalloc(size_of_regd, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rd)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(rd, &mydriver_jp_regdom, sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain));
- for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++) {
- memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i], &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i],
- sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule));
- }
- r = regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, NULL, rd);
- if (r) {
- kfree(rd);
- return r;
- }
-
+ for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++)
+ memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i],
+ &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i],
+ sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule));
+ regulatory_struct_hint(rd);