History log of /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c
Revision Date Author Comments
6cf08d1c50872acb6c8400567b1df2d02a03e58d 05-Apr-2014 David Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com> e1000e: Cleanup to fix checkpatch missing blank lines

Fixing "WARNING:SPACING: networking uses a blank line after declarations"

Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
5bb731760810b30d67096cbdded96addba4f1292 26-Feb-2014 David Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com> e1000e: Fix not generating an error on invalid load parameter

Valid values for InterruptThrottleRate are 10-100000, or one of
0, 1, 3, 4. '2' is not valid. This is a legacy from the branching
from the e1000 driver code that e1000e was based from.

Prior to this patch, if the e1000e driver was loaded with a forced
invalid InterruptThrottleRate of '2', then no throttle rate would be
set and no error message generated.

Now, a message will be generated that an invalid value was used and the
value for InterruptThrottleRate will be set to the default value.

Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
e78b80b1079e1269ca57c28abda790555b546a5f 04-Feb-2014 David Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com> e1000e: Cleanup - Update GPL header and Copyright

This patch is to update the GPL header by removing the portion that
refers to the Free Software Foundation address.

Change the copyright date for 2014.

Reformat the header comments to conform to kernel networking coding norms

Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <davidx.m.ertman@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
bbf441271b3c0e631f3687fef398c8a47fe0e3cd 20-Feb-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup format of struct e1000_opt_list struct

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
33550cecf5d22a216d497a9e1d7681537e8ffb68 20-Feb-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup unusually placed comments

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
17e813ec8c8cd0b08b80437f436d1d78f70b8403 20-Feb-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT checkpatch checks

CHECK:PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT: Alignment should match open parenthesis

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
c29c3ba55fbfb96e68c62f3ceff8a0ee7e66288f 20-Feb-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup LONG_LINE checkpatch warnings

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
55c5f55e524cec35b5931df16936118dc6c0837b 12-Jan-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup some whitespace and indentation issues

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
bf67044bf86d9b5613cdba9d7d04deb4ea08892e 01-Jan-2013 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: update copyright date

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
1860ac84613877f9ec8a1235e04190e26dd06514 05-Dec-2012 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup unnecessary line wrap

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
1dd06ae8db716e17ec7e06244b858606edf378c0 06-Dec-2012 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals

The __dev* removal patches for the network drivers ended up messing up
the function prototypes for a bunch of drivers. This patch fixes all of
them back up to be properly aligned.

Bonus is that this almost removes 100 lines of code, always a nice
surprise.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
9f9a12f8ca79839c948464a37c5b557808278708 03-Dec-2012 Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> net/intel: remove __dev* attributes

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As result the __dev*
markings will be going away.

Remove use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata, __devinitconst,
and __devexit.

Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Cc: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Cc: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
e921eb1ac411a32b98fa1a9ccbba1b24fae8de2d 28-Nov-2012 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cosmetic cleanup of comments

Update comments to conform to the preferred style for networking code as
described in ./Documentation/CodingStyle and checked for in the recently
added checkpatch NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE test.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
185095fb80ce57c0f3db8738e36ad7c02dc34d33 07-Jun-2012 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: use more informative logging macros when netdev not yet registered

Based on a report from Ethan Zhao, before calling register_netdev() the
driver should be using logging macros that do not display the potentially
confusing "(unregistered net_device)" yet still display the useful driver
name and PCI bus/device/function.

Reported-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2e7d21c54adbab6d10481eddc685328f89bb6389 09-May-2012 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> e1000e: Fix merge conflict (net->net-next)

During merge of net to net-next the changes in patch:

e1000e: Fix default interrupt throttle rate not set in NIC HW

got munged in param.c of the e1000e driver. This rectifies the
merge issues.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
eeb0d0132d7a5f0ca149d1c6d6aeeafa19a98594 09-May-2012 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> e1000e: Fix merge conflict (net->net-next)

During merge of net to net-next the changes in patch:

e1000e: Fix default interrupt throttle rate not set in NIC HW

got munged in param.c of the e1000e driver. This rectifies the
merge issues.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
727c356f4d799b53f94cf8fe43e19d64482348c7 20-Apr-2012 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> e1000e: Fix default interrupt throttle rate not set in NIC HW

Based on the original patch from Ying Cai <ycai@google.com>
This change ensures that the itr/itr_setting adjustment logic is used,
even for the default/compiled-in value.

Context:
When we changed the default InterruptThrottleRate value from default
(3 = dynamic mode) to 8000 for example, only adapter->itr_setting
(which controls interrupt coalescing mode) was set to 8000, but
adapter->itr (which controls the value set in NIC register) was not
updated accordingly. So from ethtool, it seemed the interrupt
throttling is enabled at 8000 intr/s, but the NIC actually was
running in dynamic mode which has lower CPU efficiency especially
when throughput is not high.

CC: Ying Cai <ycai@google.com>
CC: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
6ad651456e3c8f3ea77056bc05c85e46ab8ead5a 12-Apr-2012 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: cleanup remaining strings split across multiple lines

Now that split strings generate checkpatch warnings (per Chapter 2 of
Documentation/CodingStyle to make it easier to grep the code for the
string) cleanup the remaining instances of them in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
0184039a4b6727d6efd545919c773ef141090ae7 11-Feb-2012 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> e1000e: Support RXFCS feature flag.

This enables enabling/disabling reception of the Ethernet
FCS. This can be useful when sniffing packets.

For e1000e, enabling RXFCS can change the default
behaviour for how the NIC handles CRC. Disabling RXFCS
will take the NIC back to defaults, which can be configured
as part of the module options.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
f5e261e626eb3fe07adf484aaad2ecfc757feba3 01-Jan-2012 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: update copyright year

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
b6fbca2af36530ef307069cff0fe3b1f387c00a9 16-Dec-2011 Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> e1000e: default IntMode based on kernel config & available hardware support

Based on a patch from Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar@freescale.com>, set
appropriate default interrupt mode dependent on whether CONFIG_PCI_MSI
is enabled in the kernel configuration and if the hardware supports
MSI-X. Set the module parameter log message accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: Jin Qing <b24347@freescale.com>
Cc: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar@freescale.com>
Cc: Jin Qing <b24347@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
9d9779e723a5d23b94abbe5bb7d1197921f6f3dd 03-Jul-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> drivers/net: Add module.h to drivers who were implicitly using it

The device.h header was including module.h, making it present for
most of these drivers. But we want to clean that up. Call out the
include of module.h in the modular network drivers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
dee1ad47f2ee75f5146d83ca757c1b7861c34c3b 07-Apr-2011 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> intel: Move the Intel wired LAN drivers

Moves the Intel wired LAN drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ and
the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>