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- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - use copyright symbol; - add notes markups; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-Linux Phonet protocol family
-============================
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-Phonet is a packet protocol used by Nokia cellular modems for both IPC
-and RPC. With the Linux Phonet socket family, Linux host processes can
-receive and send messages from/to the modem, or any other external
-device attached to the modem. The modem takes care of routing.
-
-Phonet packets can be exchanged through various hardware connections
-depending on the device, such as:
- - USB with the CDC Phonet interface,
- - infrared,
- - Bluetooth,
- - an RS232 serial port (with a dedicated "FBUS" line discipline),
- - the SSI bus with some TI OMAP processors.
-
-
-Packets format
---------------
-
-Phonet packets have a common header as follows:
-
- struct phonethdr {
- uint8_t pn_media; /* Media type (link-layer identifier) */
- uint8_t pn_rdev; /* Receiver device ID */
- uint8_t pn_sdev; /* Sender device ID */
- uint8_t pn_res; /* Resource ID or function */
- uint16_t pn_length; /* Big-endian message byte length (minus 6) */
- uint8_t pn_robj; /* Receiver object ID */
- uint8_t pn_sobj; /* Sender object ID */
- };
-
-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 constitute 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. All other device have a their
-own 6-bit address.
-
-
-Link layer
-----------
-
-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. 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 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.
-
-
-Network layer
--------------
-
-The Phonet socket address family maps the Phonet packet header:
-
- struct sockaddr_pn {
- sa_family_t spn_family; /* AF_PHONET */
- uint8_t spn_obj; /* Object ID */
- uint8_t spn_dev; /* Device ID */
- uint8_t spn_resource; /* Resource or function */
- uint8_t spn_zero[...]; /* Padding */
- };
-
-The resource field is only used when sending and receiving;
-It is ignored by bind() and getsockname().
-
-
-Low-level datagram protocol
----------------------------
-
-Applications can send Phonet messages using the Phonet datagram socket
-protocol from the PF_PHONET family. Each socket is bound to one of the
-2^10 object IDs available, and can send and receive packets with any
-other peer.
-
- struct sockaddr_pn addr = { .spn_family = AF_PHONET, };
- ssize_t len;
- socklen_t addrlen = sizeof(addr);
- int fd;
-
- fd = socket(PF_PHONET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
- bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
- /* ... */
-
- sendto(fd, msg, msglen, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
- len = recvfrom(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0,
- (struct sockaddr *)&addr, &addrlen);
-
-This protocol follows the SOCK_DGRAM connection-less semantics.
-However, connect() and getpeername() are not supported, as they did
-not seem useful with Phonet usages (could be added easily).
-
-
-Resource subscription
----------------------
-
-A Phonet datagram socket can be subscribed to any number of 8-bits
-Phonet resources, as follow:
-
- uint32_t res = 0xXX;
- ioctl(fd, SIOCPNADDRESOURCE, &res);
-
-Subscription is similarly cancelled using the SIOCPNDELRESOURCE I/O
-control request, or when the socket is closed.
-
-Note that no more than one socket can be subcribed to any given
-resource at a time. If not, ioctl() will return EBUSY.
-
-
-Phonet Pipe protocol
---------------------
-
-The Phonet Pipe protocol is a simple sequenced packets protocol
-with end-to-end congestion control. It uses the passive listening
-socket paradigm. The listening socket is bound to an unique free object
-ID. Each listening socket can handle up to 255 simultaneous
-connections, one per accept()'d socket.
-
- int lfd, cfd;
-
- lfd = socket(PF_PHONET, SOCK_SEQPACKET, PN_PROTO_PIPE);
- listen (lfd, INT_MAX);
-
- /* ... */
- cfd = accept(lfd, NULL, NULL);
- for (;;)
- {
- char buf[...];
- ssize_t len = read(cfd, buf, sizeof(buf));
-
- /* ... */
-
- write(cfd, msg, msglen);
- }
-
-Connections are traditionally established between two endpoints by a
-"third party" application. This means that both endpoints are passive.
-
-
-As of Linux kernel version 2.6.39, it is also possible to connect
-two endpoints directly, using connect() on the active side. This is
-intended to support the newer Nokia Wireless Modem API, as found in
-e.g. the Nokia Slim Modem in the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform:
-
- struct sockaddr_spn spn;
- int fd;
-
- fd = socket(PF_PHONET, SOCK_SEQPACKET, PN_PROTO_PIPE);
- memset(&spn, 0, sizeof(spn));
- spn.spn_family = AF_PHONET;
- spn.spn_obj = ...;
- spn.spn_dev = ...;
- spn.spn_resource = 0xD9;
- connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&spn, sizeof(spn));
- /* normal I/O here ... */
- close(fd);
-
-
-WARNING:
-When polling a connected pipe socket for writability, there is an
-intrinsic race condition whereby writability might be lost between the
-polling and the writing system calls. In this case, the socket will
-block until write becomes possible again, unless non-blocking mode
-is enabled.
-
-
-The pipe protocol provides two socket options at the SOL_PNPIPE level:
-
- PNPIPE_ENCAP accepts one integer value (int) of:
-
- PNPIPE_ENCAP_NONE: The socket operates normally (default).
-
- PNPIPE_ENCAP_IP: The socket is used as a backend for a virtual IP
- interface. This requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. GPRS data
- support on Nokia modems can use this. Note that the socket cannot
- be reliably poll()'d or read() from while in this mode.
-
- PNPIPE_IFINDEX is a read-only integer value. It contains the
- interface index of the network interface created by PNPIPE_ENCAP,
- or zero if encapsulation is off.
-
- PNPIPE_HANDLE is a read-only integer value. It contains the underlying
- identifier ("pipe handle") of the pipe. This is only defined for
- socket descriptors that are already connected or being connected.
-
-
-Authors
--------
-
-Linux Phonet was initially written by Sakari Ailus.
-Other contributors include Mikä Liljeberg, Andras Domokos,
-Carlos Chinea and Rémi Denis-Courmont.
-Copyright (C) 2008 Nokia Corporation.