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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wan, branch v5.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>drivers/net/wan: lapb: Corrected the usage of skb_cow</title>
<updated>2020-07-25T03:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xie He</name>
<email>xie.he.0141@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-24T16:33:47+00:00</published>
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This patch fixed 2 issues with the usage of skb_cow in LAPB drivers
"lapbether" and "hdlc_x25":

1) After skb_cow fails, kfree_skb should be called to drop a reference
to the skb. But in both drivers, kfree_skb is not called.

2) skb_cow should be called before skb_push so that is can ensure the
safety of skb_push. But in "lapbether", it is incorrectly called after
skb_push.

More details about these 2 issues:

1) The behavior of calling kfree_skb on failure is also the behavior of
netif_rx, which is called by this function with "return netif_rx(skb);".
So this function should follow this behavior, too.

2) In "lapbether", skb_cow is called after skb_push. This results in 2
logical issues:
   a) skb_push is not protected by skb_cow;
   b) An extra headroom of 1 byte is ensured after skb_push. This extra
      headroom has no use in this function. It also has no use in the
      upper-layer function that this function passes the skb to
      (x25_lapb_receive_frame in net/x25/x25_dev.c).
So logically skb_cow should instead be called before skb_push.

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch fixed 2 issues with the usage of skb_cow in LAPB drivers
"lapbether" and "hdlc_x25":

1) After skb_cow fails, kfree_skb should be called to drop a reference
to the skb. But in both drivers, kfree_skb is not called.

2) skb_cow should be called before skb_push so that is can ensure the
safety of skb_push. But in "lapbether", it is incorrectly called after
skb_push.

More details about these 2 issues:

1) The behavior of calling kfree_skb on failure is also the behavior of
netif_rx, which is called by this function with "return netif_rx(skb);".
So this function should follow this behavior, too.

2) In "lapbether", skb_cow is called after skb_push. This results in 2
logical issues:
   a) skb_push is not protected by skb_cow;
   b) An extra headroom of 1 byte is ensured after skb_push. This extra
      headroom has no use in this function. It also has no use in the
      upper-layer function that this function passes the skb to
      (x25_lapb_receive_frame in net/x25/x25_dev.c).
So logically skb_cow should instead be called before skb_push.

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T01:28:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xie He</name>
<email>xie.he.0141@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-16T23:44:33+00:00</published>
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This driver is not working because of problems of its receiving code.
This patch fixes it to make it work.

When the driver receives an LAPB frame, it should first pass the frame
to the LAPB module to process. After processing, the LAPB module passes
the data (the packet) back to the driver, the driver should then add a
one-byte pseudo header and pass the data to upper layers.

The changes to the "x25_asy_bump" function and the
"x25_asy_data_indication" function are to correctly implement this
procedure.

Also, the "x25_asy_unesc" function ignores any frame that is shorter
than 3 bytes. However the shortest frames are 2-byte long. So we need
to change it to allow 2-byte frames to pass.

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
This driver is not working because of problems of its receiving code.
This patch fixes it to make it work.

When the driver receives an LAPB frame, it should first pass the frame
to the LAPB module to process. After processing, the LAPB module passes
the data (the packet) back to the driver, the driver should then add a
one-byte pseudo header and pass the data to upper layers.

The changes to the "x25_asy_bump" function and the
"x25_asy_data_indication" function are to correctly implement this
procedure.

Also, the "x25_asy_unesc" function ignores any frame that is shorter
than 3 bytes. However the shortest frames are 2-byte long. So we need
to change it to allow 2-byte frames to pass.

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Schiller &lt;ms@dev.tdt.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Fixed the value of hard_header_len</title>
<updated>2020-07-06T19:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xie He</name>
<email>xie.he.0141@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-06T00:45:21+00:00</published>
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When this driver transmits data,
  first this driver will remove a pseudo header of 1 byte,
  then the lapb module will prepend the LAPB header of 2 or 3 bytes,
  then this driver will prepend a length field of 2 bytes,
  then the underlying Ethernet device will prepend its own header.

So, the header length required should be:
  -1 + 3 + 2 + "the header length needed by the underlying device".

This patch fixes kernel panic when this driver is used with AF_PACKET
SOCK_DGRAM sockets.

Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When this driver transmits data,
  first this driver will remove a pseudo header of 1 byte,
  then the lapb module will prepend the LAPB header of 2 or 3 bytes,
  then this driver will prepend a length field of 2 bytes,
  then the underlying Ethernet device will prepend its own header.

So, the header length required should be:
  -1 + 3 + 2 + "the header length needed by the underlying device".

This patch fixes kernel panic when this driver is used with AF_PACKET
SOCK_DGRAM sockets.

Signed-off-by: Xie He &lt;xie.he.0141@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'</title>
<updated>2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-13T16:50:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac'/>
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<content type='text'>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: networking: convert framerelay.txt to ReST</title>
<updated>2020-04-28T21:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+huawei@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-27T22:01:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5b0d74b54c7f1cb9c65955df78dffe112e1959c1'/>
<id>5b0d74b54c7f1cb9c65955df78dffe112e1959c1</id>
<content type='text'>
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx</title>
<updated>2020-04-03T20:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-03T20:12:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ff2ae607c6f329d11a3b0528801ea7474be8c3e9'/>
<id>ff2ae607c6f329d11a3b0528801ea7474be8c3e9</id>
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Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-04-01T00:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-01T00:29:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=29d9f30d4ce6c7a38745a54a8cddface10013490'/>
<id>29d9f30d4ce6c7a38745a54a8cddface10013490</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Fix the iwlwifi regression, from Johannes Berg.

   2) Support BSS coloring and 802.11 encapsulation offloading in
      hardware, from John Crispin.

   3) Fix some potential Spectre issues in qtnfmac, from Sergey
      Matyukevich.

   4) Add TTL decrement action to openvswitch, from Matteo Croce.

   5) Allow paralleization through flow_action setup by not taking the
      RTNL mutex, from Vlad Buslov.

   6) A lot of zero-length array to flexible-array conversions, from
      Gustavo A. R. Silva.

   7) Align XDP statistics names across several drivers for consistency,
      from Lorenzo Bianconi.

   8) Add various pieces of infrastructure for offloading conntrack, and
      make use of it in mlx5 driver, from Paul Blakey.

   9) Allow using listening sockets in BPF sockmap, from Jakub Sitnicki.

  10) Lots of parallelization improvements during configuration changes
      in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel.

  11) Add support to devlink for generic packet traps, which report
      packets dropped during ACL processing. And use them in mlxsw
      driver. From Jiri Pirko.

  12) Support bcmgenet on ACPI, from Jeremy Linton.

  13) Make BPF compatible with RT, from Thomas Gleixnet, Alexei
      Starovoitov, and your's truly.

  14) Support XDP meta-data in virtio_net, from Yuya Kusakabe.

  15) Fix sysfs permissions when network devices change namespaces, from
      Christian Brauner.

  16) Add a flags element to ethtool_ops so that drivers can more simply
      indicate which coalescing parameters they actually support, and
      therefore the generic layer can validate the user's ethtool
      request. Use this in all drivers, from Jakub Kicinski.

  17) Offload FIFO qdisc in mlxsw, from Petr Machata.

  18) Support UDP sockets in sockmap, from Lorenz Bauer.

  19) Fix stretch ACK bugs in several TCP congestion control modules,
      from Pengcheng Yang.

  20) Support virtual functiosn in octeontx2 driver, from Tomasz
      Duszynski.

  21) Add region operations for devlink and use it in ice driver to dump
      NVM contents, from Jacob Keller.

  22) Add support for hw offload of MACSEC, from Antoine Tenart.

  23) Add support for BPF programs that can be attached to LSM hooks,
      from KP Singh.

  24) Support for multiple paths, path managers, and counters in MPTCP.
      From Peter Krystad, Paolo Abeni, Florian Westphal, Davide Caratti,
      and others.

  25) More progress on adding the netlink interface to ethtool, from
      Michal Kubecek"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2121 commits)
  net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: Fix potential memory leak in rpl_do_srh_inline
  cxgb4/chcr: nic-tls stats in ethtool
  net: dsa: fix oops while probing Marvell DSA switches
  net/bpfilter: remove superfluous testing message
  net: macb: Fix handling of fixed-link node
  net: dsa: ksz: Select KSZ protocol tag
  netdevsim: dev: Fix memory leak in nsim_dev_take_snapshot_write
  net: stmmac: add EHL 2.5Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: add EHL PSE0 &amp; PSE1 1Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: create dwmac-intel.c to contain all Intel platform
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Support specifying VLAN tag egress rule
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Add support for matching VLAN TCI
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Move writing of CFP_DATA(5) into slicing functions
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Check earlier for FLOW_EXT and FLOW_MAC_EXT
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Disable learning for ASP port
  net: dsa: b53: Deny enslaving port 7 for 7278 into a bridge
  net: dsa: b53: Prevent tagged VLAN on port 7 for 7278
  net: dsa: b53: Restore VLAN entries upon (re)configuration
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix overflow checks
  hv_netvsc: Remove unnecessary round_up for recv_completion_cnt
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Fix the iwlwifi regression, from Johannes Berg.

   2) Support BSS coloring and 802.11 encapsulation offloading in
      hardware, from John Crispin.

   3) Fix some potential Spectre issues in qtnfmac, from Sergey
      Matyukevich.

   4) Add TTL decrement action to openvswitch, from Matteo Croce.

   5) Allow paralleization through flow_action setup by not taking the
      RTNL mutex, from Vlad Buslov.

   6) A lot of zero-length array to flexible-array conversions, from
      Gustavo A. R. Silva.

   7) Align XDP statistics names across several drivers for consistency,
      from Lorenzo Bianconi.

   8) Add various pieces of infrastructure for offloading conntrack, and
      make use of it in mlx5 driver, from Paul Blakey.

   9) Allow using listening sockets in BPF sockmap, from Jakub Sitnicki.

  10) Lots of parallelization improvements during configuration changes
      in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel.

  11) Add support to devlink for generic packet traps, which report
      packets dropped during ACL processing. And use them in mlxsw
      driver. From Jiri Pirko.

  12) Support bcmgenet on ACPI, from Jeremy Linton.

  13) Make BPF compatible with RT, from Thomas Gleixnet, Alexei
      Starovoitov, and your's truly.

  14) Support XDP meta-data in virtio_net, from Yuya Kusakabe.

  15) Fix sysfs permissions when network devices change namespaces, from
      Christian Brauner.

  16) Add a flags element to ethtool_ops so that drivers can more simply
      indicate which coalescing parameters they actually support, and
      therefore the generic layer can validate the user's ethtool
      request. Use this in all drivers, from Jakub Kicinski.

  17) Offload FIFO qdisc in mlxsw, from Petr Machata.

  18) Support UDP sockets in sockmap, from Lorenz Bauer.

  19) Fix stretch ACK bugs in several TCP congestion control modules,
      from Pengcheng Yang.

  20) Support virtual functiosn in octeontx2 driver, from Tomasz
      Duszynski.

  21) Add region operations for devlink and use it in ice driver to dump
      NVM contents, from Jacob Keller.

  22) Add support for hw offload of MACSEC, from Antoine Tenart.

  23) Add support for BPF programs that can be attached to LSM hooks,
      from KP Singh.

  24) Support for multiple paths, path managers, and counters in MPTCP.
      From Peter Krystad, Paolo Abeni, Florian Westphal, Davide Caratti,
      and others.

  25) More progress on adding the netlink interface to ethtool, from
      Michal Kubecek"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2121 commits)
  net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: Fix potential memory leak in rpl_do_srh_inline
  cxgb4/chcr: nic-tls stats in ethtool
  net: dsa: fix oops while probing Marvell DSA switches
  net/bpfilter: remove superfluous testing message
  net: macb: Fix handling of fixed-link node
  net: dsa: ksz: Select KSZ protocol tag
  netdevsim: dev: Fix memory leak in nsim_dev_take_snapshot_write
  net: stmmac: add EHL 2.5Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: add EHL PSE0 &amp; PSE1 1Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: create dwmac-intel.c to contain all Intel platform
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Support specifying VLAN tag egress rule
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Add support for matching VLAN TCI
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Move writing of CFP_DATA(5) into slicing functions
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Check earlier for FLOW_EXT and FLOW_MAC_EXT
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Disable learning for ASP port
  net: dsa: b53: Deny enslaving port 7 for 7278 into a bridge
  net: dsa: b53: Prevent tagged VLAN on port 7 for 7278
  net: dsa: b53: Restore VLAN entries upon (re)configuration
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix overflow checks
  hv_netvsc: Remove unnecessary round_up for recv_completion_cnt
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: wan: wanxl: refactor the firmware rebuild rule</title>
<updated>2020-03-29T13:37:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-26T05:57:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7d7df745b0a63af33415ec234b29b9d6ed59ad8c'/>
<id>7d7df745b0a63af33415ec234b29b9d6ed59ad8c</id>
<content type='text'>
Split the big recipe into 3 stages: compile, link, and hexdump.

After this commit, the build log with CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE
will look like this:

  M68KAS  drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.o
  M68KLD  drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.bin
  BLDFW   drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wan/wanxl.o

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Split the big recipe into 3 stages: compile, link, and hexdump.

After this commit, the build log with CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE
will look like this:

  M68KAS  drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.o
  M68KLD  drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.bin
  BLDFW   drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wan/wanxl.o

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware</title>
<updated>2020-03-29T13:37:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-26T05:57:16+00:00</published>
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The firmware source, wanxlfw.S, is currently compiled by the combo of
$(CPP) and $(M68KAS). This is not what we usually do for compiling *.S
files. In fact, this Makefile is the only user of $(AS) in the kernel
build.

Instead of combining $(CPP) and (AS) from different tool sets, using
$(M68KCC) as an assembler driver is simpler, and saner.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The firmware source, wanxlfw.S, is currently compiled by the combo of
$(CPP) and $(M68KAS). This is not what we usually do for compiling *.S
files. In fact, this Makefile is the only user of $(AS) in the kernel
build.

Instead of combining $(CPP) and (AS) from different tool sets, using
$(M68KCC) as an assembler driver is simpler, and saner.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware</title>
<updated>2020-03-29T13:37:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-26T05:57:15+00:00</published>
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As far as I understood from the Kconfig help text, this build rule is
used to rebuild the driver firmware, which runs on an old m68k-based
chip. So, you need m68k tools for the firmware rebuild.

wanxl.c is a PCI driver, but CONFIG_M68K does not select CONFIG_HAVE_PCI.
So, you cannot enable CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE for ARCH=m68k. In other
words, ifeq ($(ARCH),m68k) is false here.

I am keeping the dead code for now, but rebuilding the firmware requires
'as68k' and 'ld68k', which I do not have in hand.

Instead, the kernel.org m68k GCC [1] successfully built it.

Allowing a user to pass in CROSS_COMPILE_M68K= is handier.

[1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/9.2.0/x86_64-gcc-9.2.0-nolibc-m68k-linux.tar.xz

Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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As far as I understood from the Kconfig help text, this build rule is
used to rebuild the driver firmware, which runs on an old m68k-based
chip. So, you need m68k tools for the firmware rebuild.

wanxl.c is a PCI driver, but CONFIG_M68K does not select CONFIG_HAVE_PCI.
So, you cannot enable CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE for ARCH=m68k. In other
words, ifeq ($(ARCH),m68k) is false here.

I am keeping the dead code for now, but rebuilding the firmware requires
'as68k' and 'ld68k', which I do not have in hand.

Instead, the kernel.org m68k GCC [1] successfully built it.

Allowing a user to pass in CROSS_COMPILE_M68K= is handier.

[1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/9.2.0/x86_64-gcc-9.2.0-nolibc-m68k-linux.tar.xz

Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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