Merge branch 'neigh_cleanups'

Eric W. Biederman says:

====================
Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups

While looking at the neighbour table to what it would take to allow
using next hops in a different address family than the current packets
I found a partial resolution for my issues and I stumbled upon some
work that makes the neighbour table code easier to understand and
maintain.

Long ago in a much younger kernel ax25 found a hack to use
dev_rebuild_header to transmit it's packets instead of going through
what today is ndo_start_xmit.

When the neighbour table was rewritten into it's current form the ax25
code was such a challenge that arp_broken_ops appeard in arp.c and
neigh_compat_output appeared in neighbour.c to keep the ax25 hack alive.

With a little bit of work I was able to remove some of the hack that
is the ax25 transmit path for ip packets and to isolate what remains
into a slightly more readable piece of code in ax25_ip.c.  Removing the
need for the generic code to worry about ax25 special cases.

After cleaning up the old ax25 hacks I also performed a little bit of
work on neigh_resolve_output to remove the need for a dst entry and to
ensure cached headers get a deterministic protocol value in their cached
header.   This guarantees that a cached header will not be different
depending on which protocol of packet is transmitted, and it allows
packets to be transmitted that don't have a dst entry.  There remains
a small amount of code that takes advantage of when packets have a dst
entry but that is something different.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 1d869d185a0d..606563ef8a72 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ extern const struct header_ops eth_header_ops;
 
 int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, unsigned short type,
 	       const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len);
-int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
 int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr);
 int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh,
 		     __be16 type);
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 5897b4ea5a3f..2007f3b44d05 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ struct header_ops {
 			   unsigned short type, const void *daddr,
 			   const void *saddr, unsigned int len);
 	int	(*parse)(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr);
-	int	(*rebuild)(struct sk_buff *skb);
 	int	(*cache)(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh, __be16 type);
 	void	(*cache_update)(struct hh_cache *hh,
 				const struct net_device *dev,
@@ -1346,7 +1345,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
  *			if one wants to override the ndo_*() functions
  *	@ethtool_ops:	Management operations
  *	@fwd_ops:	Management operations
- *	@header_ops:	Includes callbacks for creating,parsing,rebuilding,etc
+ *	@header_ops:	Includes callbacks for creating,parsing,caching,etc
  *			of Layer 2 headers.
  *
  *	@flags:		Interface flags (a la BSD)
@@ -2399,15 +2398,6 @@ static inline int dev_parse_header(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return dev->header_ops->parse(skb, haddr);
 }
 
-static inline int dev_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
-{
-	const struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
-
-	if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->rebuild)
-		return 0;
-	return dev->header_ops->rebuild(skb);
-}
-
 typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr, int len);
 int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t *gifconf);
 static inline int unregister_gifconf(unsigned int family)