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Message-Id: <1318318246-1326-6-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:30:46 +0200
From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Subject: [net-next 5/5] stmmac: update the driver version and doc
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
---
Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
index 40ec92c..8d67980 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,16 @@ core.
4.5) DMA descriptors
Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only
-tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a.
+tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and later.
+
+STMMAC supports DMA descriptor to operate both in dual buffer (RING)
+and linked-list(CHAINED) mode. In RING each descriptor points to two
+data buffer pointers whereas in CHAINED mode they point to only one data
+buffer pointer. RING mode is the default.
+
+In CHAINED mode each descriptor will have pointer to next descriptor in
+the list, hence creating the explicit chaining in the descriptor itself,
+whereas such explicit chaining is not possible in RING mode.
4.6) Ethtool support
Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using:
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h
index 50e95d8..49a4af3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
*******************************************************************************/
-#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "Aug_2011"
+#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "Oct_2011"
#include <linux/stmmac.h>
#include "common.h"
--
1.7.4.4
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