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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index 40ec92ce4c8..8d67980fabe 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -76,7 +76,16 @@ core. 4.5) DMA descriptors Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only -tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a. +tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and later. + +STMMAC supports DMA descriptor to operate both in dual buffer (RING) +and linked-list(CHAINED) mode. In RING each descriptor points to two +data buffer pointers whereas in CHAINED mode they point to only one data +buffer pointer. RING mode is the default. + +In CHAINED mode each descriptor will have pointer to next descriptor in +the list, hence creating the explicit chaining in the descriptor itself, +whereas such explicit chaining is not possible in RING mode. 4.6) Ethtool support Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using: diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h index 50e95d87857..49a4af3ce3a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> *******************************************************************************/ -#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "Aug_2011" +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "Oct_2011" #include <linux/stmmac.h> #include "common.h" |