The documentation for the USB ethernet devices suggests that
only some devices are supposed to use usb0 as the network interface
name instead of eth0. The logic used there, and documented in
Kconfig for CDC is that eth0 will be used when the mac address
is a globally assigned one, but usb0 is used for the locally
managed range that is typically used on point-to-point links.
Unfortunately, this has caused a lot of pain on the smsc95xx
device that is used on the popular pandaboard without an
EEPROM to store the MAC address, which causes the driver to
call random_ether_address().
Obviously, there should be a proper MAC addressed assigned to
the device, and discussions are ongoing about how to solve
this, but this patch at least makes sure that the default
interface naming gets a little saner and matches what the
user can expect based on the documentation, including for
new devices.
The approach taken here is to flag whether a device might be a
point-to-point link with the new FLAG_POINTTOPOINT setting in
the usbnet driver_info. A driver can set both FLAG_POINTTOPOINT
and FLAG_ETHER if it is not sure (e.g. cdc_ether), or just one
of the two. The usbnet framework only looks at the MAC address
for device naming if both flags are set, otherwise it trusts the
flag.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Specification links:
- CDC NCM errata link:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/NCM10_012011.zip
- CDC and WMC errata link:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/CDC1.2_WMC1.1_012011.zip
Changes:
- driver updated to match cdc.h header with errata changes
- added support for USB_CDC_SET_NTB_INPUT_SIZE control request with
8 byte length
- fixes to comply with specification: send only control requests supported by
device, set number of datagrams for IN direction, connection speed structure
update, etc.
- packet loss fixed for tx direction; misleading flag renamed.
- adjusted hard_mtu value.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- tx_fixup() can be called from either timer callback or from xmit()
in usbnet, so spinlock is added to avoid concurrency-related problem.
- minor correction due to checkpatch warning for some line over 80
chars after previous patch was applied.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_clone() dynamically allocates memory and may fail. If it does it
returns NULL. This means we'll dereference a NULL pointer in
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c::cdc_ncm_rx_fixup().
As far as I can tell, the proper way to deal with this is simply to goto
the error label.
Furthermore gcc complains that 'skb' may be used uninitialized:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c: In function ‘cdc_ncm_rx_fixup’:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:922:18: warning: ‘skb’ may be used uninitialized in this function
and I believe it is right. On the line where we
pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)" ...
we are using the local variable 'skb' but nothing has ever been assigned
to that variable yet. I believe the correct fix for that is to use
'skb_in' instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The patch provides USB CDC NCM host driver support in the Linux Kernel.
Changes:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:
- initial submission of the CDC NCM host driver;
- verified on Intel 32/64 bit, Intel Atom, ST-Ericsson U8500 (ARM)
- throughput measured over 100 Mbits duplex;
- driver supports 16-bit NTB format only, but it is more than enough for
transfers up to 64K;
- driver can handle up to 32 datagrams in received NTB;
- timer is used to collect several packets in Tx direction
drivers/net/usb/Kconfig:
- a new entry to compile CDC NCM host driver
drivers/net/usb/Makefile:
- a new entry to compile CDC NCM host driver
Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Arnd Bergmann