Phonet: improve documentation
Fix grammar errors spotted by Randy Dunlap,
and adds some more details.
Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt b/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
index f3c72e0..57d3e59 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
Packets format
--------------
-Phonet packet have a common header as follow:
+Phonet packets have a common header as follows:
struct phonethdr {
uint8_t pn_media; /* Media type (link-layer identifier) */
@@ -33,14 +33,17 @@
uint8_t pn_sobj; /* Sender object ID */
};
-The device ID is split: the 6 higher order bits consitutes the device
-address, while the 2 lower order bits are used for multiplexing, as are
-the 8-bits object identifiers. As such, Phonet can be considered as a
+On Linux, the link-layer header includes the pn_media byte (see below).
+The next 7 bytes are part of the network-layer header.
+
+The device ID is split: the 6 higher-order bits consitute the device
+address, while the 2 lower-order bits are used for multiplexing, as are
+the 8-bit object identifiers. As such, Phonet can be considered as a
network layer with 6 bits of address space and 10 bits for transport
protocol (much like port numbers in IP world).
-The modem always has address number zero. Each other device has a its
-own 6-bits address.
+The modem always has address number zero. All other device have a their
+own 6-bit address.
Link layer
@@ -49,11 +52,18 @@
Phonet links are always point-to-point links. The link layer header
consists of a single Phonet media type byte. It uniquely identifies the
link through which the packet is transmitted, from the modem's
-perspective.
+perspective. Each Phonet network device shall prepend and set the media
+type byte as appropriate. For convenience, a common phonet_header_ops
+link-layer header operations structure is provided. It sets the
+media type according to the network device hardware address.
-Linux Phonet network interfaces use a dedicated link layer type
-(ETH_P_PHONET) which is out of the Ethernet type range. They can only
-send and receive Phonet packets.
+Linux Phonet network interfaces support a dedicated link layer packets
+type (ETH_P_PHONET) which is out of the Ethernet type range. They can
+only send and receive Phonet packets.
+
+The virtual TUN tunnel device driver can also be used for Phonet. This
+requires IFF_TUN mode, _without_ the IFF_NO_PI flag. In this case,
+there is no link-layer header, so there is no Phonet media type byte.
Note that Phonet interfaces are not allowed to re-order packets, so
only the (default) Linux FIFO qdisc should be used with them.