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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-30 19:04:22 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-04-30 22:56:38 +0300 |
commit | 671d114d8cde3ba4390714b850c86d8b39d31009 (patch) | |
tree | 0d25b5e168d0ef593b08be93c1f2935a02041201 /Documentation | |
parent | 9f72374cb5959556870be8078b128158edde5d3e (diff) | |
download | linux-671d114d8cde3ba4390714b850c86d8b39d31009.tar.xz |
docs: networking: convert sctp.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- 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: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/sctp.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/sctp.txt) | 37 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index cd307b9601fa..1761eb715061 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Contents: rds regulatory rxrpc + sctp .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sctp.txt b/Documentation/networking/sctp.rst index 97b810ca9082..9f4d9c8a925b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sctp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/sctp.rst @@ -1,35 +1,42 @@ -Linux Kernel SCTP +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +Linux Kernel SCTP +================= This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference -implementation. +implementation. SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally -developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the -Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a -general purpose transport. +developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the +Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a +general purpose transport. -See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. -See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt +See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. +See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation -of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface -referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as -proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. +of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface +referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as +proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. -Caveats: +Caveats +======= --lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that -module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. +- lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that + module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. --There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards -implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. +- There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards + implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: + http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: + <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org> |