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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2016-12-05 17:11:48 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2016-12-05 17:11:48 +1000
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parent3e5de27e940d00d8d504dfb96625fb654f641509 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-f03ee46be9401e3434f52bb15e92d1e640f76438.tar.gz
Backmerge tag 'v4.9-rc8' into drm-next
Linux 4.9-rc8 Daniel requested this so we could apply some follow on fixes cleanly to -next.
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index 6d6c07cf1a9a..63912ef34606 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -67,13 +67,14 @@ Note that DSA does not currently create network interfaces for the "cpu" and
Switch tagging protocols
------------------------
-DSA currently supports 4 different tagging protocols, and a tag-less mode as
+DSA currently supports 5 different tagging protocols, and a tag-less mode as
well. The different protocols are implemented in:
net/dsa/tag_trailer.c: Marvell's 4 trailer tag mode (legacy)
net/dsa/tag_dsa.c: Marvell's original DSA tag
net/dsa/tag_edsa.c: Marvell's enhanced DSA tag
net/dsa/tag_brcm.c: Broadcom's 4 bytes tag
+net/dsa/tag_qca.c: Qualcomm's 2 bytes tag
The exact format of the tag protocol is vendor specific, but in general, they
all contain something which:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt
index 399e4e866a9c..433b6724797a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt
@@ -62,10 +62,13 @@ nf_conntrack_generic_timeout - INTEGER (seconds)
protocols.
nf_conntrack_helper - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled
- not 0 - enabled (default)
+ 0 - disabled (default)
+ not 0 - enabled
Enable automatic conntrack helper assignment.
+ If disabled it is required to set up iptables rules to assign
+ helpers to connections. See the CT target description in the
+ iptables-extensions(8) man page for further information.
nf_conntrack_icmp_timeout - INTEGER (seconds)
default 30