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| 20-Aug-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases f
Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.
It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a bit.
Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also *seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.
We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only do so much.
The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork, automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from people we trust...
Core & protocols:
- A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence: - per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g. veth, ipvlan, tunnels) - rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE) - prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET
- Support BIG TCP (>64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)
- Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API
- Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when out-of-order queue had to be pruned
- Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST
- Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE
- Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages: instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot
- IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID (address) in a different/specified routing table
- Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation
- Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN
- Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter
Ethernet:
- Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch with the CXL tree)
- New drivers: - ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY - Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers
- High-speed NICs: - AMD/Pensando: - support firmware flashing - Cisco (enic): - SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol - Huawei (hns3): - support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout - nVidia/Mellanox: - support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces of the same device - Marvell (octeontx2-pf): - link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats - Google vNIC: - XDP metadata support for DQ RDA - Microsoft vNIC: - support forcing full-page RX buffers
- Other NICs: - Synopsys IP: - eic7700: support for eth1 - Microchip (lan743x): - support for RMII interface - Wangxun: - support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs - add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling - Intel (igb/igc): - RSS key get/set support - support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation
- Switches: - NXP (dpaa2): - support bonding/LAG offload - Mediatek: - mt7530: EN7528 support - initial support for MT7628 - Micrel (ksz8/9): - refactoring work to move towards library model - PTP support for KSZ8463 - nVidia/Mellanox: - support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks - Realtek: - rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code - support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S
- PHYs: - Airoha: - EcoNet EN7528 PHY support - DAPU Telecom - DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support - Realtek: - support RTL8261C_CG - support RTL8261D
Wireless:
- nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation
- mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast
- Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)
- New drivers: - mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices - nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)
- Driver changes: - Broadcom (brcmfmac): - DPP support, some Cypress part update - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7928 support - mt7925 NAN support - mt7996 AP powersave improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - much kernel infrastructure integration work - AHB platform MultiPD support - Realtek (rt89): - LED support - RTL8922DE support - dual-BT coex for RTL8922D - Intel: - new FW version support
Bluetooth:
- HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature
- af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations
- Driver changes: - Intel: - add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support - add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR - Mediatek: - add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices - Realtek: - add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices - NXP: - add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq
Misc:
- DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO) (implement in zl3073x)
- MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)
- Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers
- Remove the IBM EHEA driver
- Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"
* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits) net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs() net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment() bonding: initialize err for empty target lists net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect ...
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| 21-Jul-2026 |
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> |
Merge branch 'net-add-adin1140-support'
Ciprian Regus says:
==================== net: Add ADIN1140 support
This series introduces support for the ADIN1140 (also called AD3306) 10BASE-T1S single po
Merge branch 'net-add-adin1140-support'
Ciprian Regus says:
==================== net: Add ADIN1140 support
This series introduces support for the ADIN1140 (also called AD3306) 10BASE-T1S single port MACPHY. The device integrates the MAC and PHY in the same package. The communication with the host CPU is done through an SPI interface, using the Open Alliance TC6 protocol for control and data transactions. As a result, the oa_tc6 framework is used to implement the communication with the device (register accesses and Ethernet frame RX/TX).
The MAC and PHY are connected internally using an MII and MDIO bus.
The PHY is a half duplex 10Mbps device, which implements both the PLCA RS (IEEE 802.3 clause 148) and CSMA/CD methods of accessing the Ethernet medium. The 10BASE-T1S standard allows multiple PHY devices to be connected (in parallel) on the same single twisted pair network segment, so PLCA can be configured in order to provide a fair access scheme to all the nodes and reduce the jitter introduced by the unordered CSMA/CD transmits. The PHY's internal register map can be accessed using the direct MDIO mode of the OA TC6. The control, status, phy id 1 & 2 C22 registers are mapped to the 0xFF00 - 0xFF03 range. As for C45 addressable devices, the PHY has PCS, PMA and PLCA blocks.
The oa_tc6 framework patches are changes that would make the library usable by the subsequent ADIN1140 MAC driver.
The protected mode patch is required because the ADIN1140 only allows protected mode OA TC6 control transactions, which the oa_tc6 framework doesn't currently implement.
The OA_TC6_BROKEN_PHY quirk patch is required in order to allow the MAC driver to have a custom implementation for the mii_bus access methods as a workaround for hardware issues:
1. The OA TC6 standard defines the direct and indirect access modes for MDIO transactions. The ADIN1140 incorrectly advertises indirect mode only (supported capabilities register - 0x2, bit 9), while actually implementing just the direct mode. We cannot rely on the CAP register to choose an access method (which oa_tc6 does by default, even though it only implements the direct mode), so the driver has to use its own. 2. The ADIN1140 cannot access the C22 register space of the internal PHY, while the PHY is busy receiving frames. If that happens, the CONFIG0 and CONFIG2 registers of the MAC will get corrupted and the data transfer will stop. Those two registers configure settings for the transfer protocol between the MAC and host, so the value for some of their subfields shouldn't be changed while the netdev is up. Since we know the PHY is internal, the MAC driver can implement a custom mii_bus, which can intercept C22 accesses. Most of the registers mapped in the 0x0 - 0x3 range (the only ones the PHY offers) are read only, and their value can be read from somewhere else (e.g the PHYID 1 & 2 have the same value as 0x1 in the MAC memory map). C45 accesses do not cause this issue, so we can properly implement them.
Even though they have different driver, the MAC one cannot function without the PHY driver, since the PHY is not compatible with the generic c22 driver. As such CONFIG_ADIN1140 selects CONFIG_ADIN1140_PHY.
Signed-off-by: Ciprian Regus <ciprian.regus@analog.com> ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708-adin1140-driver-v5-0-4aca7b51a58b@analog.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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| 08-Jul-2026 |
Ciprian Regus <ciprian.regus@analog.com> |
net: phy: Add support for the ADIN1140 PHY
Add a driver for the ADIN1140's internal 10BASE-T1S PHY. The device doesn't implement autonegotiation, so the link is always reported as being up.
The dev
net: phy: Add support for the ADIN1140 PHY
Add a driver for the ADIN1140's internal 10BASE-T1S PHY. The device doesn't implement autonegotiation, so the link is always reported as being up.
The device implements both C22 and C45 MDIO access methods, but can only be discovered over C22, since the C45 MMD devices lack the MDIO_DEVID1 and MDIO_DEVID2 registers. The indirect C45 over C22 feature is not supported.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Ciprian Regus <ciprian.regus@analog.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708-adin1140-driver-v5-12-4aca7b51a58b@analog.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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