commit 9ac32e1b firmware: convert e100 driver to request_firmware()
did a straight conversion of the in-driver ucode to external
files. This introduced the possibility of the driver failing
to enable an interface due to missing ucode. There was no
evaluation of the importance of the ucode at the time.
Based on comments in earlier versions of this driver, and in
the source code for the FreeBSD fxp driver, we can assume that
the ucode implements the "CPU Cycle Saver" feature on supported
adapters. Although generally wanted, this is an optional
feature. The ucode source is not available, preventing it from
being included in free distributions. This creates unnecessary
problems for the end users. Doing a network install based on a
free distribution installer requires the user to download and
insert the ucode into the installer.
Making the ucode optional when possible improves the user
experience and driver usability.
The ucode for some adapters include a bugfix, making it
essential. We continue to fail for these adapters unless the
ucode is available.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping.
Tested on an old PIII laptop with built in NIC.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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>
The old code would += the total errors every time
stats were gathered. Instead, keep a count of short-pkt
and long-pkt counters and then simply add them together
for the rx-over-length stat.
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>
This allows the NIC to receive packets with bad FCS
and other errors. Good for sniffing packets on flakey
networks.
v4: Only flax rx-over-length errors if pkt is beyond
maximum expected packet size, not just beyond the MTU.
This matches the existing logic for this counter.
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>
This can aid with testing the RX logic for bad
CRCs.
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>
This allows e100 to be configured to append the
Ethernet FCS to the skb.
Useful for sniffing networks.
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>
alloc_etherdev has a generic OOM/unable to alloc message.
Remove the duplicative messages after alloc_etherdev calls.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Per discussion with Ben Hutchings and David Miller, go through and
remove assignments of "N/A" to fw_version in various drivers'
.get_drvinfo routines. While there clean-up some use of bare
constants and such.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Perform another round of floor sweeping, converting the .get_drvinfo
routines of additional drivers from strcpy to strlcpy along with
some conversion of sprintf to snprintf.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
e100 parts don't support vlan offload but they generally do
allow use of vlans in higher software layers via the 8021q module.
That said, there are a couple of really old revisions of e100
hardware that don't even allow the longer frame sizes
required for vlan use with standard MTU.
Use the VLAN_CHALLENGED flag to prevent vlan binding to these
devices.
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
CC: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Per comments from Ben Hutchings on a previous patch, sweep the floors
a little removing unnecessary assignments of zero to fields of struct
ethtool_ringparam in driver code supporting ethtool -g.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
