Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   - Gustavo A. R. Silva keeps working on the implicit switch fallthru
     changes.

   - Support 802.11ax High-Efficiency wireless in cfg80211 et al, From
     Luca Coelho.

   - Re-enable ASPM in r8169, from Kai-Heng Feng.

   - Add virtual XFRM interfaces, which avoids all of the limitations of
     existing IPSEC tunnels. From Steffen Klassert.

   - Convert GRO over to use a hash table, so that when we have many
     flows active we don't traverse a long list during accumluation.

   - Many new self tests for routing, TC, tunnels, etc. Too many
     contributors to mention them all, but I'm really happy to keep
     seeing this stuff.

   - Hardware timestamping support for dpaa_eth/fsl-fman from Yangbo Lu.

   - Lots of cleanups and fixes in L2TP code from Guillaume Nault.

   - Add IPSEC offload support to netdevsim, from Shannon Nelson.

   - Add support for slotting with non-uniform distribution to netem
     packet scheduler, from Yousuk Seung.

   - Add UDP GSO support to mlx5e, from Boris Pismenny.

   - Support offloading of Team LAG in NFP, from John Hurley.

   - Allow to configure TX queue selection based upon RX queue, from
     Amritha Nambiar.

   - Support ethtool ring size configuration in aquantia, from Anton
     Mikaev.

   - Support DSCP and flowlabel per-transport in SCTP, from Xin Long.

   - Support list based batching and stack traversal of SKBs, this is
     very exciting work. From Edward Cree.

   - Busyloop optimizations in vhost_net, from Toshiaki Makita.

   - Introduce the ETF qdisc, which allows time based transmissions. IGB
     can offload this in hardware. From Vinicius Costa Gomes.

   - Add parameter support to devlink, from Moshe Shemesh.

   - Several multiplication and division optimizations for BPF JIT in
     nfp driver, from Jiong Wang.

   - Lots of prepatory work to make more of the packet scheduler layer
     lockless, when possible, from Vlad Buslov.

   - Add ACK filter and NAT awareness to sch_cake packet scheduler, from
     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.

   - Support regions and region snapshots in devlink, from Alex Vesker.

   - Allow to attach XDP programs to both HW and SW at the same time on
     a given device, with initial support in nfp. From Jakub Kicinski.

   - Add TLS RX offload and support in mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin.

   - Use PHYLIB in r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit.

   - All sorts of changes to support Spectrum 2 in mlxsw driver, from
     Ido Schimmel.

   - PTP support in mv88e6xxx DSA driver, from Andrew Lunn.

   - Make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option more accurate, from Jon
     Maxwell.

   - Support for templates in packet scheduler classifier, from Jiri
     Pirko.

   - IPV6 support in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon.

   - Native tproxy support in nf_tables, from Máté Eckl.

   - Maintain IP fragment queue in an rbtree, but optimize properly for
     in-order frags. From Peter Oskolkov.

   - Improvde handling of ACKs on hole repairs, from Yuchung Cheng"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1996 commits)
  bpf: test: fix spelling mistake "REUSEEPORT" -> "REUSEPORT"
  hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback
  net: filter: mark expected switch fall-through
  xen-netfront: fix warn message as irq device name has '/'
  cxgb4: Add new T5 PCI device ids 0x50af and 0x50b0
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: missing unlock on error path
  rds: fix building with IPV6=m
  inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bitwise vs logical bug
  net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd()
  ieee802154: hwsim: using right kind of iteration
  net: hns3: Add vlan filter setting by ethtool command -K
  net: hns3: Set tx ring' tc info when netdev is up
  net: hns3: Remove tx ring BD len register in hns3_enet
  net: hns3: Fix desc num set to default when setting channel
  net: hns3: Fix for phy link issue when using marvell phy driver
  net: hns3: Fix for information of phydev lost problem when down/up
  net: hns3: Fix for command format parsing error in hclge_is_all_function_id_zero
  net: hns3: Add support for serdes loopback selftest
  bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/alias.rst b/Documentation/networking/alias.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===========
+IP-Aliasing
+===========
+
+IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks
+per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple
+address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported
+for backwards compatibility.
+
+An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
+This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
+
+
+Alias creation
+==============
+
+Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
+200.1.1.1 alias for eth0 ...
+::
+
+  # ifconfig eth0:0 200.1.1.1  etc,etc....
+	~~ -> request alias #0 creation (if not yet exists) for eth0
+
+The corresponding route is also set up by this command.  Please note:
+The route always points to the base interface.
+
+
+Alias deletion
+==============
+
+The alias is removed by shutting the alias down::
+
+  # ifconfig eth0:0 down
+	~~~~~~~~~~ -> will delete alias
+
+
+Alias (re-)configuring
+======================
+
+Aliases are not real devices, but programs should be able to configure
+and refer to them as usual (ifconfig, route, etc).
+
+
+Relationship with main device
+=============================
+
+If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted too.