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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-05-01 16:44:51 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-05-01 21:24:42 +0200
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parentdocs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/vxge.txt to ReST (diff)
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docs: networking: device drivers: convert qualcomm/rmnet.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - add a document title; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.txt)43
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
index 55837244eaad..66ed884548cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Contents:
microsoft/netvsc
neterion/s2io
neterion/vxge
+ qualcomm/rmnet
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.rst
index 6b341eaf2062..70643b58de05 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qualcomm/rmnet.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============
+Rmnet Driver
+============
+
1. Introduction
+===============
rmnet driver is used for supporting the Multiplexing and aggregation
Protocol (MAP). This protocol is used by all recent chipsets using Qualcomm
@@ -18,17 +25,18 @@ sending aggregated bunch of MAP frames. rmnet driver will de-aggregate
these MAP frames and send them to appropriate PDN's.
2. Packet format
+================
a. MAP packet (data / control)
MAP header has the same endianness of the IP packet.
-Packet format -
+Packet format::
-Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
-Function Command / Data Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
-Bit 32 - x
-Function Raw Bytes
+ Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
+ Function Command / Data Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
+ Bit 32 - x
+ Function Raw Bytes
Command (1)/ Data (0) bit value is to indicate if the packet is a MAP command
or data packet. Control packet is used for transport level flow control. Data
@@ -44,24 +52,27 @@ Multiplexer ID is to indicate the PDN on which data has to be sent.
Payload length includes the padding length but does not include MAP header
length.
-b. MAP packet (command specific)
+b. MAP packet (command specific)::
-Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
-Function Command Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
-Bit 32 - 39 40 - 45 46 - 47 48 - 63
-Function Command name Reserved Command Type Reserved
-Bit 64 - 95
-Function Transaction ID
-Bit 96 - 127
-Function Command data
+ Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
+ Function Command Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
+ Bit 32 - 39 40 - 45 46 - 47 48 - 63
+ Function Command name Reserved Command Type Reserved
+ Bit 64 - 95
+ Function Transaction ID
+ Bit 96 - 127
+ Function Command data
Command 1 indicates disabling flow while 2 is enabling flow
-Command types -
+Command types
+
+= ==========================================
0 for MAP command request
1 is to acknowledge the receipt of a command
2 is for unsupported commands
3 is for error during processing of commands
+= ==========================================
c. Aggregation
@@ -71,9 +82,11 @@ packets and either ACK the MAP command or deliver the IP packet to the
network stack as needed
MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding|MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding....
+
MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding|MAP header|Command Packet|Optional pad...
3. Userspace configuration
+==========================
rmnet userspace configuration is done through netlink library librmnetctl
and command line utility rmnetcli. Utility is hosted in codeaurora forum git.