Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.15 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.13' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest parport API.

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc3' into asoc-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc3

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Pulling in -rc2 fixes and TTM changes that next upcoming patches depend
on.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc2' into spi-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc2

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into fixes

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Time to get back in sync...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v5.12 fixes. Requested for vmwgfx.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Start this new release drm-misc-fixes branch

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:

- bpf:
- allow bpf programs calling kernel

Merge tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:

- bpf:
- allow bpf programs calling kernel functions (initially to
reuse TCP congestion control implementations)
- enable task local storage for tracing programs - remove the
need to store per-task state in hash maps, and allow tracing
programs access to task local storage previously added for
BPF_LSM
- add bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper, allowing programs to walk
all map elements in a more robust and easier to verify fashion
- sockmap: support UDP and cross-protocol BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT
redirection
- lpm: add support for batched ops in LPM trie
- add BTF_KIND_FLOAT support - mostly to allow use of BTF on
s390 which has floats in its headers files
- improve BPF syscall documentation and extend the use of kdoc
parsing scripts we already employ for bpf-helpers
- libbpf, bpftool: support static linking of BPF ELF files
- improve support for encapsulation of L2 packets

- xdp: restructure redirect actions to avoid a runtime lookup,
improving performance by 4-8% in microbenchmarks

- xsk: build skb by page (aka generic zerocopy xmit) - improve
performance of software AF_XDP path by 33% for devices which don't
need headers in the linear skb part (e.g. virtio)

- nexthop: resilient next-hop groups - improve path stability on
next-hops group changes (incl. offload for mlxsw)

- ipv6: segment routing: add support for IPv4 decapsulation

- icmp: add support for RFC 8335 extended PROBE messages

- inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation

- tcp: deal better with delayed TX completions - make sure we don't
give up on fast TCP retransmissions only because driver is slow in
reporting that it completed transmitting the original

- tcp: reorder tcp_congestion_ops for better cache locality

- mptcp:
- add sockopt support for common TCP options
- add support for common TCP msg flags
- include multiple address ids in RM_ADDR
- add reset option support for resetting one subflow

- udp: GRO L4 improvements - improve 'forward' / 'frag_list'
co-existence with UDP tunnel GRO, allowing the first to take place
correctly even for encapsulated UDP traffic

- micro-optimize dev_gro_receive() and flow dissection, avoid
retpoline overhead on VLAN and TEB GRO

- use less memory for sysctls, add a new sysctl type, to allow using
u8 instead of "int" and "long" and shrink networking sysctls

- veth: allow GRO without XDP - this allows aggregating UDP packets
before handing them off to routing, bridge, OvS, etc.

- allow specifing ifindex when device is moved to another namespace

- netfilter:
- nft_socket: add support for cgroupsv2
- nftables: add catch-all set element - special element used to
define a default action in case normal lookup missed
- use net_generic infra in many modules to avoid allocating
per-ns memory unnecessarily

- xps: improve the xps handling to avoid potential out-of-bound
accesses and use-after-free when XPS change race with other
re-configuration under traffic

- add a config knob to turn off per-cpu netdev refcnt to catch
underflows in testing

Device APIs:

- add WWAN subsystem to organize the WWAN interfaces better and
hopefully start driving towards more unified and vendor-
independent APIs

- ethtool:
- add interface for reading IEEE MIB stats (incl. mlx5 and bnxt
support)
- allow network drivers to dump arbitrary SFP EEPROM data,
current offset+length API was a poor fit for modern SFP which
define EEPROM in terms of pages (incl. mlx5 support)

- act_police, flow_offload: add support for packet-per-second
policing (incl. offload for nfp)

- psample: add additional metadata attributes like transit delay for
packets sampled from switch HW (and corresponding egress and
policy-based sampling in the mlxsw driver)

- dsa: improve support for sandwiched LAGs with bridge and DSA

- netfilter:
- flowtable: use direct xmit in topologies with IP forwarding,
bridging, vlans etc.
- nftables: counter hardware offload support

- Bluetooth:
- improvements for firmware download w/ Intel devices
- add support for reading AOSP vendor capabilities
- add support for virtio transport driver

- mac80211:
- allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap
- set priority and queue mapping for injected frames

- phy: add support for Clause-45 PHY Loopback

- pci/iov: add sysfs MSI-X vector assignment interface to distribute
MSI-X resources to VFs (incl. mlx5 support)

New hardware/drivers:

- dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for Marvell mv88e6393x - 11-port
Ethernet switch with 8x 1-Gigabit Ethernet and 3x 10-Gigabit
interfaces.

- dsa: support for legacy Broadcom tags used on BCM5325, BCM5365 and
BCM63xx switches

- Microchip KSZ8863 and KSZ8873; 3x 10/100Mbps Ethernet switches

- ath11k: support for QCN9074 a 802.11ax device

- Bluetooth: Broadcom BCM4330 and BMC4334

- phy: Marvell 88X2222 transceiver support

- mdio: add BCM6368 MDIO mux bus controller

- r8152: support RTL8153 and RTL8156 (USB Ethernet) chips

- mana: driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)

- Actions Semi Owl Ethernet MAC

- can: driver for ETAS ES58X CAN/USB interfaces

Pure driver changes:

- add XDP support to: enetc, igc, stmmac

- add AF_XDP support to: stmmac

- virtio:
- page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom
(21% improvement for 1000B UDP frames)
- support XDP even without dedicated Tx queues - share the Tx
queues with the stack when necessary

- mlx5:
- flow rules: add support for mirroring with conntrack, matching
on ICMP, GTP, flex filters and more
- support packet sampling with flow offloads
- persist uplink representor netdev across eswitch mode changes
- allow coexistence of CQE compression and HW time-stamping
- add ethtool extended link error state reporting

- ice, iavf: support flow filters, UDP Segmentation Offload

- dpaa2-switch:
- move the driver out of staging
- add spanning tree (STP) support
- add rx copybreak support
- add tc flower hardware offload on ingress traffic

- ionic:
- implement Rx page reuse
- support HW PTP time-stamping

- octeon: support TC hardware offloads - flower matching on ingress
and egress ratelimitting.

- stmmac:
- add RX frame steering based on VLAN priority in tc flower
- support frame preemption (FPE)
- intel: add cross time-stamping freq difference adjustment

- ocelot:
- support forwarding of MRP frames in HW
- support multiple bridges
- support PTP Sync one-step timestamping

- dsa: mv88e6xxx, dpaa2-switch: offload bridge port flags like
learning, flooding etc.

- ipa: add IPA v4.5, v4.9 and v4.11 support (Qualcomm SDX55, SM8350,
SC7280 SoCs)

- mt7601u: enable TDLS support

- mt76:
- add support for 802.3 rx frames (mt7915/mt7615)
- mt7915 flash pre-calibration support
- mt7921/mt7663 runtime power management fixes"

* tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2451 commits)
net: selftest: fix build issue if INET is disabled
net: netrom: nr_in: Remove redundant assignment to ns
net: tun: Remove redundant assignment to ret
net: phy: marvell: add downshift support for M88E1240
net: dsa: ksz: Make reg_mib_cnt a u8 as it never exceeds 255
net/sched: act_ct: Remove redundant ct get and check
icmp: standardize naming of RFC 8335 PROBE constants
bpf, selftests: Update array map tests for per-cpu batched ops
bpf: Add batched ops support for percpu array
bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf
seq_file: Add a seq_bprintf function
sfc: adjust efx->xdp_tx_queue_count with the real number of initialized queues
net:nfc:digital: Fix a double free in digital_tg_recv_dep_req
net: fix a concurrency bug in l2tp_tunnel_register()
net/smc: Remove redundant assignment to rc
mpls: Remove redundant assignment to err
llc2: Remove redundant assignment to rc
net/tls: Remove redundant initialization of record
rds: Remove redundant assignment to nr_sig
dt-bindings: net: mdio-gpio: add compatible for microchip,mdio-smi0
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FDDI: if_fddi.h: Update my e-mail address

Following the recent update to MAINTAINERS update my e-mail address.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <d

FDDI: if_fddi.h: Update my e-mail address

Following the recent update to MAINTAINERS update my e-mail address.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge tag 'v4.20' into for-linus

Sync with mainline to get linux/overflow.h among other things.

Merge tag 'v4.20' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in the new APIs.

Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.20-rc7

Sync with upstream (which now contains fbdev-v4.20 changes) to
prepare a b

Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.20-rc7

Sync with upstream (which now contains fbdev-v4.20 changes) to
prepare a base for fbdev-v4.21 changes.

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Pull in v4.20-rc3 via drm-next.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

drm-next is forwarded to v4.20-rc1, and we need this to make
a patch series apply.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

drm-next is forwarded to v4.20-rc1, and we need this to make
a patch series apply.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'v4.20-rc2' into next-general

Sync to Linux 4.20-rc2 for downstream developers.

Merge tag 'v4.20-rc1' into omap-for-v4.21/dt-ti-sysc

Linux 4.20-rc1

Merge branch 'fixes-dts' into omap-for-v4.20/fixes

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add VF IPSEC offload support in ixgbe, from Shannon Nelson.

2) Add zero-copy AF_X

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add VF IPSEC offload support in ixgbe, from Shannon Nelson.

2) Add zero-copy AF_XDP support to i40e, from Björn Töpel.

3) All in-tree drivers are converted to {g,s}et_link_ksettings() so we
can get rid of the {g,s}et_settings ethtool callbacks, from Michal
Kubecek.

4) Add software timestamping to veth driver, from Michael Walle.

5) More work to make packet classifiers and actions lockless, from Vlad
Buslov.

6) Support sticky FDB entries in bridge, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

7) Add ipv6 version of IP_MULTICAST_ALL sockopt, from Andre Naujoks.

8) Support batching of XDP buffers in vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

9) Add flow dissector BPF hook, from Petar Penkov.

10) i40e vf --> generic iavf conversion, from Jesse Brandeburg.

11) Add NLA_REJECT netlink attribute policy type, to signal when users
provide attributes in situations which don't make sense. From
Johannes Berg.

12) Switch TCP and fair-queue scheduler over to earliest departure time
model. From Eric Dumazet.

13) Improve guest receive performance by doing rx busy polling in tx
path of vhost networking driver, from Tonghao Zhang.

14) Add per-cgroup local storage to bpf

15) Add reference tracking to BPF, from Joe Stringer. The verifier can
now make sure that references taken to objects are properly released
by the program.

16) Support in-place encryption in TLS, from Vakul Garg.

17) Add new taprio packet scheduler, from Vinicius Costa Gomes.

18) Lots of selftests additions, too numerous to mention one by one here
but all of which are very much appreciated.

19) Support offloading of eBPF programs containing BPF to BPF calls in
nfp driver, frm Quentin Monnet.

20) Move dpaa2_ptp driver out of staging, from Yangbo Lu.

21) Lots of u32 classifier cleanups and simplifications, from Al Viro.

22) Add new strict versions of netlink message parsers, and enable them
for some situations. From David Ahern.

23) Evict neighbour entries on carrier down, also from David Ahern.

24) Support BPF sk_msg verdict programs with kTLS, from Daniel Borkmann
and John Fastabend.

25) Add support for filtering route dumps, from David Ahern.

26) New igc Intel driver for 2.5G parts, from Sasha Neftin et al.

27) Allow vxlan enslavement to bridges in mlxsw driver, from Ido
Schimmel.

28) Add queue and stack map types to eBPF, from Mauricio Vasquez B.

29) Add back byte-queue-limit support to r8169, with all the bug fixes
in other areas of the driver it works now! From Florian Westphal and
Heiner Kallweit.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2147 commits)
tcp: add tcp_reset_xmit_timer() helper
qed: Fix static checker warning
Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj"
Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait"
net: socionext: Reset tx queue in ndo_stop
net: socionext: Add dummy PHY register read in phy_write()
net: socionext: Stop PHY before resetting netsec
net: stmmac: Set OWN bit for jumbo frames
arm64: dts: stratix10: Support Ethernet Jumbo frame
tls: Add maintainers
net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: unsync mcast entries while switch promisc mode
octeontx2-af: Support for NIXLF's UCAST/PROMISC/ALLMULTI modes
octeontx2-af: Support for setting MAC address
octeontx2-af: Support for changing RSS algorithm
octeontx2-af: NIX Rx flowkey configuration for RSS
octeontx2-af: Install ucast and bcast pkt forwarding rules
octeontx2-af: Add LMAC channel info to NIXLF_ALLOC response
octeontx2-af: NPC MCAM and LDATA extract minimal configuration
octeontx2-af: Enable packet length and csum validation
octeontx2-af: Support for VTAG strip and capture
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Merge branch 'defza-fddi'

Maciej W. Rozycki says:

====================
FDDI: DEC FDDIcontroller 700 TURBOchannel adapter support

This is an update to <http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/342737/>.

Merge branch 'defza-fddi'

Maciej W. Rozycki says:

====================
FDDI: DEC FDDIcontroller 700 TURBOchannel adapter support

This is an update to <http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/342737/>. I
believe I have addressed all the requests made in the previous review
round.

There is still one `checkpatch.pl' warning remaining:

WARNING: quoted string split across lines
+ pr_info("%s: ROM rev. %.4s, firmware rev. %.4s, RMC rev. %.4s, "
+ "SMT ver. %u\n", fp->name, rom_rev, fw_rev, rmc_rev, smt_ver);

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 2458 lines checked

however I think the value of staying within 80 columns is higher than the
value of having the string on a single line. This is because with all the
formatting specifiers there it is not directly greppable based on the
final output produced to the kernel log on one hand, e.g.:

tc2: ROM rev. 1.0, firmware rev. 1.2, RMC rev. A, SMT ver. 1

while it can be easily tracked down by grepping for an obvious substring
such as "RMC rev" on the other.

The issue with MMIO barriers I discussed in the course of the original
review turned out mostly irrelevant to this driver, because as I have
learnt in a recent Alpha/Linux discussion starting here:
<https://marc.info/?i=alpine.LRH.2.02.1808161556450.13597%20()%20file01%20!%20intranet%20!%20prod%20!%20int%20!%20rdu2%20!%20redhat%20!%20com>
our MMIO API mandates the `readX' and `writeX' accessors to be strongly
ordered with respect to each other, even if that is not implicitly
enforced by hardware.

Consequently I have removed all the explicit ordering barriers and
instead submitted a fix for MIPS MMIO implementation, which currently does
not guarantee strong ordering (the MIPS architecture does not define bus
ordering rules except in terms of SYNC barriers), as recorded here:
<https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/?series=1538>.

Enforcing strong MMIO ordering can be costly however and is often
unnecessary, e.g. when using PIO to access network frame data in onboard
packet memory. I have therefore retained the information that would be
lost by the removal of barriers, by defining accessor wrappers suffixed by
`_o' and `_u', for accesses that have to be ordered and can be unordered
respectively.

If we ever have an API defined for weakly-ordered MMIO accesses, then
these wrappers can be redefined accordingly. Right now they all expand to
the respective `_relaxed' accessors, because, again, enforcing the
ordering WRT DMA transfers can be costly and we don't need it here except
in one place, where I chose to use explicit `dma_rmb' instead.

Similarly I have replaced the completion barriers with a read back from
the respective MMIO location (all adapter MMIO registers can be read with
no side effects incurred), which will serve its purpose on the basis of
MMIO being strongly ordered (although a read from TURBOchannel is going to
be slower than `iob', making the delay incurred unnecessarily longer).

And last but not least, I have split off the SMT Tx network tap support
to a separate change, 2/2 in this series, so that it does not block the
driver proper and can be discussed separately.

I think it has value in that it makes the view of the outgoing network
traffic complete, as if one actually physically tapped into the outgoing
line of the ring, between the station being examined and its downstream
neighbour. Without this part only traffic passed from applications
through the whole protocol stack can be captured and this is only a part
of the view.

With the `dev_queue_xmit_nit' interface now exported it's only
`ptype_all' that remains private, and to define a properly abstracted API
I propose to provide am exported `dev_nit_active' predicate that tells
whether any taps are active. This predicate is then used accordingly.

NB if there is a long-term maintenance concern about the `dev_nit_active'
predicate, then well, corresponding inline code currently present in
`xmit_one' has to be maintained anyway, and if the resulting changes
require `defza' to be updated accordingly, then I am going to handle it;
after some 20 years with Linux it's not that I am going to disappear
anywhere anytime. And once I am dead, which is inevitably going to happen
sooner or later, then the driver can simply be ripped from the kernel.
Though I suspect that at that point no DECstation Linux users may survive
anymore, even though hardware, being as sturdy as it is, likely will.

I have a patch for `tcpdump' to actually decode SMT frames, which I plan
to upstream sometime. Here's a sample of SMT traffic captured through the
`defza' driver in a small network of 4 stations and no concentrators,
printed in the most verbose mode:

01:16:59.138381 4f 00:60:b0:58:41:e7 00:60:b0:58:41:e7 73: SMT NIF ann vid:1 tid:00000270 sid:00-00-00-60-b0-58-41-e7 len:40: UNA: 00 00 00 06 0d 1a 02 ae StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 30 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:00.332750 4f 08:00:2b:a3:a3:29 08:00:2b:a3:a3:29 73: SMT NIF ann vid:1 tid:0000013b sid:00-00-08-00-2b-a3-a3-29 len:40: UNA: 00 00 00 06 0d 1a 82 e7 StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 30 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:00.354479 4f 00:60:b0:58:40:75 00:60:b0:58:40:75 73: SMT NIF ann vid:1 tid:0000029c sid:00-00-00-60-b0-58-40-75 len:40: UNA: 00 00 10 00 d4 74 b6 ae StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 31 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:00.442175 4f 00:60:b0:58:41:e7 Broadcast 73: SMT NIF req vid:1 tid:00000271 sid:00-00-00-60-b0-58-41-e7 len:40: UNA: 00 00 00 06 0d 1a 02 ae StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 30 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:00.448657 41 08:00:2b:a3:a3:29 00:60:b0:58:41:e7 73: SMT NIF rsp vid:1 tid:00000271 sid:00-00-08-00-2b-a3-a3-29 len:40: UNA: 00 00 00 06 0d 1a 82 e7 StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 30 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:01.015152 4f 08:00:2b:a3:a3:29 Broadcast 73: SMT NIF req vid:1 tid:0000013c sid:00-00-08-00-2b-a3-a3-29 len:40: UNA: 00 00 00 06 0d 1a 82 e7 StationDescr: 00 01 02 00 StationState: 00 00 30 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.3: 00 00 00 01
01:17:01.111644 41 08:00:2b:2e:6d:75 08:00:2b:a3:a3:29 73: SMT NIF rsp vid:1 tid:0000013c sid:00-00-08-00-2b-2e-6d-75 len:40: UNA: 00 00 10 00 d4 c5 c5 94 StationDescr: 00 01 01 00 StationState: 00 00 11 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.2: 00 00 00 01
01:17:04.814603 4f 08:00:2b:2e:6d:75 Broadcast 73: SMT NIF req vid:1 tid:0000013c sid:00-00-08-00-2b-2e-6d-75 len:40: UNA: 00 00 10 00 d4 c5 c5 94 StationDescr: 00 01 01 00 StationState: 00 00 11 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.2: 00 00 00 01
01:17:04.814939 4f 08:00:2b:2e:6d:75 Broadcast 73: SMT NIF req vid:1 tid:0000013c sid:00-00-08-00-2b-2e-6d-75 len:40: UNA: 00 00 10 00 d4 c5 c5 94 StationDescr: 00 01 01 00 StationState: 00 00 11 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.2: 00 00 00 01
01:17:04.820960 4f 08:00:2b:2e:6d:75 08:00:2b:2e:6d:75 73: SMT NIF ann vid:1 tid:0000013b sid:00-00-08-00-2b-2e-6d-75 len:40: UNA: 00 00 10 00 d4 c5 c5 94 StationDescr: 00 01 01 00 StationState: 00 00 11 00 MACFrameStatusFunctions.2: 00 00 00 01

Questions, comments? Otherwise, please apply.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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FDDI: defza: Add support for DEC FDDIcontroller 700 TURBOchannel adapter

Add support for the DEC FDDIcontroller 700 (DEFZA), Digital Equipment
Corporation's first-generation FDDI network interface a

FDDI: defza: Add support for DEC FDDIcontroller 700 TURBOchannel adapter

Add support for the DEC FDDIcontroller 700 (DEFZA), Digital Equipment
Corporation's first-generation FDDI network interface adapter, made for
TURBOchannel and based on a discrete version of what eventually became
Motorola's widely used CAMEL chipset.

The CAMEL chipset is present for example in the DEC FDDIcontroller
TURBOchannel, EISA and PCI adapters (DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA) that we support
with the `defxx' driver, however the host bus interface logic and the
firmware API are different in the DEFZA and hence a separate driver is
required.

There isn't much to say about the driver except that it works, but there
is one peculiarity to mention. The adapter implements two Tx/Rx queue
pairs.

Of these one pair is the usual network Tx/Rx queue pair, in this case
used by the adapter to exchange frames with the ring, via the RMC (Ring
Memory Controller) chip. The Tx queue is handled directly by the RMC
chip and resides in onboard packet memory. The Rx queue is maintained
via DMA in host memory by adapter's firmware copying received data
stored by the RMC in onboard packet memory.

The other pair is used to communicate SMT frames with adapter's
firmware. Any SMT frame received from the RMC via the Rx queue must be
queued back by the driver to the SMT Rx queue for the firmware to
process. Similarly the firmware uses the SMT Tx queue to supply the
driver with SMT frames that must be queued back to the Tx queue for the
RMC to send to the ring.

This solution was chosen because the designers ran out of PCB space and
could not squeeze in more logic onto the board that would be required to
handle this SMT frame traffic without the need to involve the driver, as
with the later DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapters.

Finally the driver does some Frame Control byte decoding, so to avoid
magic numbers some macros are added to <linux/if_fddi.h>.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge branch 'fix/intel' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into asoc-intel