summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-28 00:01:38 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-28 14:39:46 -0700
commit5b0d74b54c7f1cb9c65955df78dffe112e1959c1 (patch)
treed4d59c32cd77017d2db6abf8e941eca048062036
parent62502dff2c5012c19727bd992b0101a816095f1e (diff)
docs: networking: convert framerelay.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - add a document title; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt)21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wan/Kconfig4
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt b/Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst
index 1a0b720440dd..6d904399ec6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-Frame Relay (FR) support for linux is built into a two tiered system of device
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+================
+Frame Relay (FR)
+================
+
+Frame Relay (FR) support for linux is built into a two tiered system of device
drivers. The upper layer implements RFC1490 FR specification, and uses the
Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI) as its hardware address. Usually these
are assigned by your network supplier, they give you the number/numbers of
@@ -7,18 +13,18 @@ the Virtual Connections (VC) assigned to you.
Each DLCI is a point-to-point link between your machine and a remote one.
As such, a separate device is needed to accommodate the routing. Within the
net-tools archives is 'dlcicfg'. This program will communicate with the
-base "DLCI" device, and create new net devices named 'dlci00', 'dlci01'...
+base "DLCI" device, and create new net devices named 'dlci00', 'dlci01'...
The configuration script will ask you how many DLCIs you need, as well as
how many DLCIs you want to assign to each Frame Relay Access Device (FRAD).
The DLCI uses a number of function calls to communicate with the FRAD, all
-of which are stored in the FRAD's private data area. assoc/deassoc,
+of which are stored in the FRAD's private data area. assoc/deassoc,
activate/deactivate and dlci_config. The DLCI supplies a receive function
to the FRAD to accept incoming packets.
With this initial offering, only 1 FRAD driver is available. With many thanks
-to Sangoma Technologies, David Mandelstam & Gene Kozin, the S502A, S502E &
-S508 are supported. This driver is currently set up for only FR, but as
+to Sangoma Technologies, David Mandelstam & Gene Kozin, the S502A, S502E &
+S508 are supported. This driver is currently set up for only FR, but as
Sangoma makes more firmware modules available, it can be updated to provide
them as well.
@@ -32,8 +38,7 @@ an initial configuration.
Additional FRAD device drivers can be added as hardware is available.
At this time, the dlcicfg and fradcfg programs have not been incorporated into
-the net-tools distribution. They can be found at ftp.invlogic.com, in
+the net-tools distribution. They can be found at ftp.invlogic.com, in
/pub/linux. Note that with OS/2 FTPD, you end up in /pub by default, so just
-use 'cd linux'. v0.10 is for use on pre-2.0.3 and earlier, v0.15 is for
+use 'cd linux'. v0.10 is for use on pre-2.0.3 and earlier, v0.15 is for
pre-2.0.4 and later.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index b2fb8b907d68..4e225f1f7039 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Contents:
fib_trie
filter
fore200e
+ framerelay
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
index dbc0e3f7a3e2..3e21726c36e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ config DLCI
To use frame relay, you need supporting hardware (called FRAD) and
certain programs from the net-tools package as explained in
- <file:Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt>.
+ <file:Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst>.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called dlci.
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ config SDLA
These are multi-protocol cards, but only Frame Relay is supported
by the driver at this time. Please read
- <file:Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt>.
+ <file:Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst>.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called sdla.