From 51e3137b9b6113c7e12cf0a0dc82238854a86712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:01:20 +0000 Subject: stmmac: update the driver version and doc (V4) Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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: -- cgit v1.1