Minor Gems
Many further minor, but by no means insignificant, changes can be found in the list below, which contains the commit headers referring to the respective change. Like many of the references in the text above, the links point to the relevant commit in the web front end of the Git branch for the "official" kernel sources maintained by Linus Torvalds at kernel.org. The commit comments available at these links and the patches themselves provide extensive further information on the respective changes.
Ethernet
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N1
] be2net: Add functionality to support RoCE driver - [
6
] bnx2x: add afex support - [
I
] bnx2x: Added support for a new device - 57811 - [
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1
] bnx2x: change to the rss engine - [
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C N2
] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip - [
C N2
] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip - [
N6
] igb: Add Support for new i210/i211 devices. - [
C 1
] igb: offer a PTP Hardware Clock instead of the timecompare method - [
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C N1
] ixgbe: add hwmon interface to export thermal data - [
C N3
] ixgbe: Hardware Timestamping + PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) - [
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DN
] net: Add device tree support to LPC32xx - [
C N1
] net/mlx4_en: DCB QoS support - [
C 7
] net: remove ixp2000 ethernet driver - [
C
] net: sh_eth: add support R8A7740 - [
1
] qlcnic: Adding mac statistics to ethtool. - [
D
] stmmac: Define CSUM offload engine Types - [
D
] stmmac: MDC clock dynamically based on the csr clock input - [
D 1
] stmmac: re-work the internal GMAC DMA platf parameters - [
D
] stmmac: update driver's doc - [
C N5
] tilegx network driver: initial support
Wi-Fi
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I
] ath5k: add PCI id - [
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2
] ath6kl: add full USB support - [
N2
] ath9k: add DFS pattern detector - [
C DN4
] batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code - [
C
] batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile option - [
D
] batman-adv: export claim tables through debugfs - [
D
] batman-adv: make bridge loop avoidance switchable - [
D
] batman-adv: README cleanups - [
C 1
] brcmfmac: add out of band interrupt support - [
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D
] Documentation/networking/ieee802154: update MAC chapter - [
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C
] iwlwifi: change the default P2P support to "Yes" - [
2
] iwlwifi: clean up module parameters - [
C N1
] iwlwifi: phy_db structure - [
C 1
] iwlwifi: remove ucode16 option - [
2
] mac80211: add improved HW queue control - [
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C N2
] mac80211: Implement mesh synchronization framework - [
D
] mac80211: notify driver of rate control updates - [
D 1
] mac80211: set HT channel before association - [
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C N
] mac802154: allocation of ieee802154 device - [
N
] mac802154: basic ieee802.15.4 device structures - [
N
] mac802154: basic MAC commands interface support - [
N
] mac802154: basic mib support - [
N
] mac802154: monitor device support - [
N
] mac802154: RX data path - [
N
] mac802154: TX data path - [
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C
] mwifiex: add support for SD8786 sdio - [
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1
] mwifiex: add WPA2 support for AP - [
1
] {nl,cfg}80211: Support for mesh synchronization - [
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I
] rt2x00:Add RT539b chipset support - [
I
] rtlwifi: support for Belkin Surf N300 XR - [
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I
] wireless: rt2x00: rt{2500,73}usb.c put back duplicate id - [
I
] wireless: rt2x00: rt2800pci add more RT539x ids - [
I
] wireless: rt2x00: rt2800usb add more devices ids - [
I
] wireless: rt2x00: rt2800usb more devices were identified - [
Various
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1
] caif-hsi: robust frame aggregation for HSI - [
C N
] drivers/ieee802154: IEEE 802.15.4 loopback driver - [
D
] feature-removal: Remove pn544 raw driver - [
2
] ipvs: add support for sync threads - [
1
] ipvs: wakeup master thread - [
N2
] l2tp: introduce L2TPv3 IP encapsulation support for IPv6 - [
I
] mISDN: Add X-Tensions USB ISDN TA XC-525 - [
1
] net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks - [
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C DN
] netdev/of/phy: Add MDIO bus multiplexer driven by GPIO lines. - [
C DN1
] netdev/of/phy: Add MDIO bus multiplexer support. - [
D
] net: doc: merge /proc/sys/net/core/* documents into one place - [
C N1
] netfilter: add xt_hmark target for hash-based skb marking - [
D
] netfilter: bridge: optionally set indev to vlan - [
C N2
] net: filter: Just In Time compiler for sparc - [
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C DN3
] netfilter: remove ip_queue support - [
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I
] net: qmi_wwan: Add Vodafone/Huawei K5005 support - [
I
] net: sierra_net: device IDs for Aircard 320U++ - [
C
] NET: smsc-ircc2: mark non-experimental - [
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C D
] net/wanrouter: Deprecate and schedule for removal - [
C N2
] NFC: HCI based pn544 driver - [
C N2
] NFC: SHDLC implementation - [
D
] NFC: Update Documentation/nfc-hci.txt - [
C
] s390: delete any traces of token ring support - [
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1
] team: add support for per-port options - [
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I
] USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3520-Z - [
I
] USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3765-Z - [
C
] xfrm: make xfrm_algo.c a module
Every link is preceded by various letters and numbers in square brackets. The letter "C" identifies patches that modify Kconfig files, which contain the help texts and configuration options displayed by "make menuconfig", "make xconfig" and similar tools during kernel configuration. "I" marks patches that contain additional PCI or USB IDs. "D" is used for patches that modify the documentation available under Documentation/ in the kernel branch. "N" identifies changes which create a new file. The numbers provide a rough idea of the patch size: For instance, "1" is used for changes between 10 and 20 KBytes including comment, "2" for patches between 20 and 30 KBytes; changes without a number are less than 10 KBytes, while patches marked "9" are 90 KBytes or more.
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