kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch linux-2.6.22.y

NET: Share correct feature code between bridging and bonding

2007-08-31T06:01:00+00:00

[NET]: Share correct feature code between bridging and bonding http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum flags and SG/TSO. For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that has neither flag set. If both have TSO then this produces an illegal combination. The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to deal with this. In fact, the same code can be used for both. So this patch moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both bonding and bridging. In the process I've made small adjustments such as only setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device supports it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete

2007-05-31T08:23:35+00:00

This patch kills a little bit of code duplication between the two variants of netif_rx_complete. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device

2007-05-11T06:45:07+00:00

These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather than allocating it on demand. In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially throw a link up event away. It also simplifies the code greatly. In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use of singleevent. This race condition still exists (and is somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)

2007-05-03T22:13:45+00:00

Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype

2007-05-03T10:28:13+00:00

Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype for callers that don't want a reference but some data from the device and thus need to take the rtnl anyway. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS, default to internal stats.

2007-04-29T04:04:03+00:00

Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal one the default. If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available". Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETPOLL]: Fix TX queue overflow in trapped mode.

2007-04-29T03:57:37+00:00

CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue). So, make this option more sensible by making it only bypass the TX softirq wakeup. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Tom Rini Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.

2007-04-27T03:48:23+00:00

This patch makes the wext bits in struct net_device depend on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[WIRELESS] cfg80211: New wireless config infrastructure.

2007-04-26T05:29:41+00:00

This patch creates the core cfg80211 code along with some sysfs bits. This is a stripped down version to allow mac80211 to function, but doesn't include any configuration yet except for creating and removing virtual interfaces. This patch includes the nl80211 header file but it only contains the interface types which the cfg80211 interface for creating virtual interfaces relies on. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Inline net_device_stats

2007-04-26T05:28:26+00:00

Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure then write a get_stats() function to return them. It would be nice if this were done by default. 1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device". 2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one" 3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set. 4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if ->get_stats is set. This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code. Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller