Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a
     route attribute.

   - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send
     a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance
     on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit).

   - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler:
       - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling
       - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR)
       - improve inactive flow reporting
       - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality

   - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern
     replacement for the old MD5 option.

   - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to
     TCP_INFO.

   - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets.

   - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was
     shutdown().

   - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router
     Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft.

   - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode.

   - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable.

   - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps
     limit the number of wakeups.

   - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user
     space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire
     table.

   - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver.

   - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks.

   - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were
     created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at
     runtime.

   - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different
     filters.

   - MCTP over I3C.

  BPF:

   - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of
     the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode.

   - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never
     be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra
     flexibility around handling of the exit / failure:

          https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/

   - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing
     per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the
     value for the current CPU.

     This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU
     storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps.

   - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is
     for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows
     running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs
     of different services.

   - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion
     made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs.

   - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the
     use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF.

   - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup().

   - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU.

   - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and
     fentry/fexit programs.

   - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed
     kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs.

   - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations.

   - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x.

  Changes to common code:

   - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with
     flexible array members.

   - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers.

  Driver API:

   - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy
     mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks.

   - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and
     querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in
     network time distribution.

   - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code.
     Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE.

   - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop().

   - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve
     correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC
     addresses.

   - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames.

   - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule().

   - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages.

  Misc:

   - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric.

   - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees.

   - A lot of strncpy -> strscpy and printf format fixes.

   - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers.

   - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core.

  Removed:

   - AppleTalk COPS.

   - AppleTalk ipddp.

   - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs
         - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable
         - cross-timestamping for E823 devices
         - basic support for E830 devices
         - use aux-bus for managing client drivers
         - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support 4-port NICs
         - increase max number of channels to 256
         - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - enhance NIC temperature reporting
         - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration
      - Marvell OcteonTX2:
         - PTP pulse-per-second output support
         - enable hardware timestamping for VFs
      - Solarflare/AMD:
         - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - expose HW statistics
      - Pensando/AMD:
         - support PCI level reset
         - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized
      - Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
         - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload

   - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - add Loongson-1 SoC support
         - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities
         - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels
         - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms
      - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags
      - xen: support SW packet timestamping
      - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM)

   - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
      - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block
        selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks
        in ACL region

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Microchip:
         - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance
         - ksz9477: partial ACL support
         - ksz9477: HSR offload
         - ksz9477: Wake on LAN
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs
      - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking

   - CAN:
      - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers
      - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices
         - HW wireless <> Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips
         - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - WCN7850:
            - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band
            - hardware rfkill support
            - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to
              make scan faster
            - read board data variant name from SMBIOS
        - QCN9274: mesh support
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC)
      - Silicon Labs (wfx):
         - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support

   - Bluetooth:
      - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support
      - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED
      - add support for QCA2066
      - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend"

* tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits)
  net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers
  net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos()
  net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment
  vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size()
  iavf: delete the iavf client interface
  iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme
  iavf: use unregister_netdev
  iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state
  iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset
  iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed
  iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops
  iavf: fix comments about old bit locks
  doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name
  tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types
  ipvlan: properly track tx_errors
  netdevsim: Block until all devices are released
  nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb()
  net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -> "Energy"
  net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN
  net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index 09dcf6377c27..7feacc20835e 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
@@ -441,6 +441,21 @@ in a way which would break what would normally be considered uAPI.
 new ``netdevsim`` features must be accompanied by selftests under
 ``tools/testing/selftests/``.
 
+Reviewer guidance
+-----------------
+
+Reviewing other people's patches on the list is highly encouraged,
+regardless of the level of expertise. For general guidance and
+helpful tips please see :ref:`development_advancedtopics_reviews`.
+
+It's safe to assume that netdev maintainers know the community and the level
+of expertise of the reviewers. The reviewers should not be concerned about
+their comments impeding or derailing the patch flow.
+
+Less experienced reviewers are highly encouraged to do more in-depth
+review of submissions and not focus exclusively on trivial or subjective
+matters like code formatting, tags etc.
+
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