diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index cd307b9601faa5d28b6a04ad1e2546c1af54a0da..1761eb7150610c0add83194eec0c96954b874755 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 similarity index 64% rename from Documentation/networking/sctp.txt rename to Documentation/networking/sctp.rst index 97b810ca9082dbad569c57b8b9bdd6f0a8dda1c1..9f4d9c8a925b5ff2b66edb79835213a4a3255834 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: + diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 866a0dcd66ef705ace9b1468179fcbfb4269fefc..0ac9cec0bce6b136b93c461f90439bfdfdfd376a 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -14999,7 +14999,7 @@ M: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner L: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained W: http://lksctp.sourceforge.net -F: Documentation/networking/sctp.txt +F: Documentation/networking/sctp.rst F: include/linux/sctp.h F: include/net/sctp/ F: include/uapi/linux/sctp.h