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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2014-01-16 22:06:30 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2014-01-16 22:06:30 +0100
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Merge commit origin/master into drm-intel-next
Conflicts are getting out of hand, and now we have to shuffle even more in -next which was also shuffled in -fixes (the call for drm_mode_config_reset needs to move yet again). So do a proper backmerge. I wanted to wait with this for the 3.13 relaese, but alas let's just do this now. Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c Besides the conflict around the forcewake get/put (where we chaged the called function in -fixes and added a new parameter in -next) code all the current conflicts are of the adjacent lines changed type. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ Transmission process is similar to capture as shown below.
[shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the transmission socket and
deallocation of all associated resources.
+Socket creation and destruction is also straight forward, and is done
+the same way as in capturing described in the previous paragraph:
+
+ int fd = socket(PF_PACKET, mode, 0);
+
+The protocol can optionally be 0 in case we only want to transmit
+via this socket, which avoids an expensive call to packet_rcv().
+In this case, you also need to bind(2) the TX_RING with sll_protocol = 0
+set. Otherwise, htons(ETH_P_ALL) or any other protocol, for example.
+
Binding the socket to your network interface is mandatory (with zero copy) to
know the header size of frames used in the circular buffer.
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