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Dominik Brodowski 54bb5675a6 [PATCH] pcmcia: only start up nonstatic sockets if both mem and io are available
Only start up nonstatic sockets if both IO and MEM resources are available.
Thanks to Russell King and Matthew Wilcox for tracking this down.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-09-28 20:11:30 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski 1146bc743e [PATCH] pcmcia: allow one port excludes
Allow for excluding only one port in /etc/pcmcia/config.otps

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-09-28 20:11:26 +02:00
David Howells 664cceb009 [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3]
The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a
key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes
SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key
targets using the LSM facilities.

This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *)
that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of
a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered
key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts
to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer.

The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as
it's not an intrinsic property of a key.

Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever
possession information needs to be passed through.

This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on
return from kmem_cache_alloc().

The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be
located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined
type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all
reference variables should now end in "_ref".

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 09:10:47 -07:00
Paul Jackson 5134fc15b6 [PATCH] cpuset read past eof memory leak fix
Don't leak a page of memory if user reads a cpuset file past eof.

Signed-off-by: KUROSAWA Takahiro <kurosawa@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:58:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2dd3c1df95 Merge branch 'for-linus' from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2005-09-28 07:47:55 -07:00
Alok N Kataria 5c38230087 [PATCH] kmalloc_node IRQ safety fix
In kmalloc_node we are checking if the allocation is for the same node when
interrupts are "on".  This may lead to an allocation on another node than
intended.

This patch just shifts the check for the current node in __cache_alloc_node
when interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 0f9578b70a [PATCH] ppc64: More hugepage fixes
My previous patch fixing invalidation of huge PTEs wasn't good enough, we
still had an issue if a PTE invalidation batch contained both small and
large pages.  This patch fixes this by making sure the batch is flushed if
the page size fed to it changes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
Alasdair G Kergon 485ef69ede [PATCH] device-mapper: Fix queue_if_no_path initialisation
When creating a multipath device, if the queue_if_no_path parameter is
specified it gets ignored.

While the queue_if_no_path variable is correctly set to 1, the
saved_queue_if_no_path gets set to 0.  When the device is subsequently made
live (resumed), the saved value (0) always overwrites the live value (1) so
the option *always* gets turned off.

The fix adds a parameter to the queue_if_no_path() function to indicate
whether the previous value should be preserved or not - if not, as when the
device is being set up, the saved value is set to the new value (1).

Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
goggin, edward 269fd2a6f8 [PATCH] device-mapper: Trigger an event when a table is deleted
If anything is waiting on a device's table when the device is removed, we
must first wake it up so it will release its reference.  Otherwise the
table's reference count will not drop to zero and the table will not get
removed.

Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 0f7347c20c [PATCH] swsusp: avoid problems if there are too many pages to save
The following patch makes swsusp avoid problems during resume if there are
too many pages to save on suspend.  It adds a constant that allows us to
verify if we are going to save too many pages and implements the check
(this is done as early as we can tell that the check will trigger, which is
in swsusp_alloc()).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt f65a4d10c8 [PATCH] orinoco: Fix flood of kernel log with stupid WE warnings
Latest wireless extensions moved a field from netdev -> wireless_handlers.
The WE core will now printk a warning on every call to get_wireless_stats()
on a driver that still uses the old field.  This patch fixes orinoco.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Anton Blanchard b3ca809351 [PATCH] ppc64: Add missing barrier() in kexec code
Mikey and I were testing kexec and hit a lockup.  It turns out gcc 4.0
optimises the kexec_prepare_cpus loop so we avoid reloading paca.hw_cpu_id.
 A gcc barrier() fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Paul Jackson ed90fb4a19 [PATCH] cpuset maintainers
Specify the cpuset maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
john stultz 6c132b5fe6 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs
This should resolve the issue seen in bugme bug #5105, where it is assumed
that dualcore x86_64 systems have synced TSCs.  This is not the case, and
alternate timesources should be used instead.

For more details, see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105

Andi's earlier concerns that the TSCs should be synced on dualcore systems
have been resolved by confirmation from AMD folks that they can be
unsynced.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Corey Minyard a9d014afc3 [PATCH] Add IPMI poweroff control to sysfs
Put the IPMI poweroff_powercycle parameter into sysfs.  This field is
dynamically settable and is valuable to have in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt f4208b9a95 [PATCH] ppc: fix stupid thinko in oprofile fix
I did something stupid in my oprofile fix, here's the obvious fix:

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Rusty Russell f36462f078 [PATCH] Ignore trailing whitespace on kernel parameters correctly
Dave Jones says:

... if the modprobe.conf has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load
with the following helpful message..

	snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'

Previous version truncated last argument.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Davide Libenzi e3306dd5f7 [PATCH] epoll: handle timeout overflow
Handle the timeout upper boundary for epoll.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki f2d613799a [PATCH] swsusp: prevent possible memory leak
Prevent swsusp from leaking some memory in case of an error in
read_pagedir().  It also prevents the BUG_ON() from triggering if there's
an error while reading swap.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 254b54771c [PATCH] swsusp: remove wrong code from data_free
The following patch removes some wrong code from the data_free() function
in swsusp.

This function could only be called if there's an error while writing the
suspend image to swap, so it is not triggered easily.  However, if
triggered, it would probably corrupt some memory.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Peter Osterlund 249a6771af [PATCH] pktcdvd: MAINTAINERS record
Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the pktcdvd driver.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Jon Burgess 88bdcc5d5e [PATCH] dvb: fix NULL pointer dereference when loading the budget-av module
Ralph Metzler wrote:
> AFAIR, there is a bug in tda10021.c in tda10021_readreg() which
> references state->frontend.dvb->num
> This is fatal if the frontend is not at the probed address and thus
> not yet registered (no dvb entry set yet -> NULL pointer ...).

The attached patch should get rid of the oops.

Signed-off-by: Jon Burgess <jburgess@uklinux.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov 0b8dd17762 [PATCH] v9fs: fix races in fid allocation
Fid management cleanup.  The patch attempts to fix the races in dentry's
fid management.

Dentries don't keep the opened fids anymore, they are moved to the file
structs.  Ideally there should be no more than one fid with fidcreate equal
to zero in the dentry's list of fids.

v9fs_fid_create initializes the important fields (fid, fidcreated) before
v9fs_fid is added to the list.  v9fs_fid_lookup returns only fids that are
not created by v9fs_create.  v9fs_fid_get_created returns the fid created
by the same process by v9fs_create (if any) and removes it from dentry's
list

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Chris Sykes dc7b5fd6b0 [PATCH] Fix ext3_new_inode() failure paths
Fix failure paths in ext3_new_inode() and clean up duplicated code: -
DQUOT_DROP() was not being called if ext3_init_security() failed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sykes <chris@sigsegv.plus.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Chris Sykes 9ed6c2fb34 [PATCH] Fix ext2_new_inode() failure paths
Fix failure paths in ext2_new_inode() and clean up duplicated code: -
DQUOT_DROP() was not being called if ext2_init_security() failed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sykes <chris@sigsegv.plus.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi ee4e52719c [PATCH] fuse: check reserved node ID values
This patch checks reserved node ID values returned by lookup and creation
operations.  In case one of the reserved values is sent, return -EIO.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 909021ea7a [PATCH] fuse: add required version info
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes.  Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.

Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Nick Piggin 8b1f312461 [PATCH] mm: move_pte to remap ZERO_PAGE
Move the ZERO_PAGE remapping complexity to the move_pte macro in
asm-generic, have it conditionally depend on
__HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, which gets defined for MIPS.

For architectures without __HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, move_pte becomes
a noop.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix nasty little bug we've missed in Nick's mremap move ZERO_PAGE patch.
The "pte" at that point may be a swap entry or a pte_file entry: we must
check pte_present before perhaps corrupting such an entry.

Patch below against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but the same bug is in 2.6.14-rc2's
mm/mremap.c, and more dangerous there since it's affecting all arches: I
think the safest course is to send Nick's patch and Yoichi's build fix and
this fix (build tested) on to Linus - so only MIPS can be affected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Jack Morgenstein a1c337afaf [IB] mthca: fix hw_ver value returned from mthca_query_device
The IB spec defines the field to be 32 bits, not 16 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2005-09-27 13:54:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 95001ee925 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2005-09-27 13:33:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 63906e41fe Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-27 13:32:33 -07:00
Krzysztof Benedyczak 5917583978 [PATCH] Make POSIX message queue sys_mq_open() honor umask
We ignored umask when creating new queues via mq_open (when creating
with open() on mqueue fs it is ok of course).  According to the
specification this a bug.  This trivial patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-27 13:30:45 -07:00
David S. Miller c8a6c29639 [TG3]: Update driver version and release date.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 12:13:38 -07:00
Michael Chan f9804ddbee [TG3]: misc. fixes
Fix interrupt test handler by adding check for IRQ assertion in
PCI_STATE register in addition to the status block updated bit.

Add test for valid ethernet address in tg3_set_mac_addr().

Add tg3_bus_string() to setup the PCI bus speed/width string for all
PCI/PCIX/PCI Express devices. This is used to print the bus type
during init_one().

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 12:13:10 -07:00
Michael Chan c94e39418a [TG3]: 5780 PHY fixes
Fix 5780 PHY related problems:

1. MAC_RX_MODE reset must be done before setting up the MAC_MODE
   register on 5705_PLUS chips or the chip will stop receiving after
   a while. The MAC_RX_MODE reset is needed to prevent intermittently
   losing the first receive packet on serdes chips.

2. Skip MAC loopback test on 5780 because of hardware errata. Normal
   traffic including PHY loopback is not affected by the errata.

3. PHY loopback fails intermittently on 5708S and this is fixed by
   putting the PHY in loopback mode first before programming the MAC
   mode register. A MAC_RX_MODE reset is also added.

4. Return -EINVAL in tg3_nway_reset() if device is in TBI mode. Allow
   nway_reset if 5780S is in parallel detect mode.

5. Add missing PHY IDs in KNOWN_PHY_ID() macro.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 12:12:42 -07:00
David S. Miller 667347f1ca [NEIGH]: Add debugging check when adding timers.
If we double-add a neighbour entry timer, which should be
impossible but has been reported, dump the current state of
the entry so that we can debug this.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27 12:07:44 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin f02b16bea2 [IB] mthca: Round up number of slots in HCA context memory table
When allocating a table for mem-free HCA context, don't assume that
obj_size * nobj is an even multiple of MTHCA_TABLE_CHUNK_SIZE.  In
particular, make sure we allocate at least one slot even if the table
is smaller than MTHCA_TABLE_CHUNK_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2005-09-26 21:12:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5c1f4cac6f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-26 18:33:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c6a519d2aa Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-09-26 18:32:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bf0cbb3e42 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-fixes-2.6 2005-09-26 18:31:36 -07:00
Al Viro 0b15569454 [PATCH] missing dependency on arm O= builds
arm maketools needs include/asm-arm in place in the build tree.
On normal builds it's always there, of course, but on O= it's created
(by generic code) too late - when we get to asm-offset.h.

	We used to get away with that by accident - creation of
include/asm-arm/arch symlink creates include/asm-arm and it happened
to go before maketools.  However, we did not have such dependency,
so that luck didn't last - now maketools is picked first and we are screwed.

	Both the symlink and maketools are prerequisites of the same
target (archprepare).  This fix is obvious - make the latter explicitly
depend on the former and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
Al Viro a880948b2b [PATCH] m32r: more basic __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
Al Viro c74dbac714 [PATCH] m32r: set CHECKFLAGS properly
We do _not_ need "sparse" in sparse arguments ;-)

What we do need is __BIG_ENDIAN__; right now unconditional, when m32r
starts using CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN, we'll need to adjust.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
Al Viro 24558a0f7a [PATCH] m32r: missing __iomem in ioremap() declaration
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
Al Viro ce3a161e69 [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386
Most of these guys are simply not needed (pulled by other stuff
via asm-i386/hardirq.h).  One that is not entirely useless is hilarious -
arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c includes linux/irq.h... as a way to
get linux/errno.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
Al Viro 7625d483a4 [PATCH] missing asm/irq.h (cs89x0)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-26 18:29:49 -07:00
David S. Miller 0dc4610698 [SPARC64]: Do not do TLB pre-filling any more.
In order to do it correctly on UltraSPARC-III+ and later we'd
need to add some complicated code to set the TAG access extension
register before loading the TLB.

Since this optimization gives questionable gains, it's best to
just remove it for now instead of adding the fix for Ultra-III+

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-26 16:12:18 -07:00
David S. Miller c5bd50a953 [SPARC64]: Simplify Spitfire D-cache page flush.
It tries to batch up the tag loads and comparisons, and
then the stores.  And this is just complicated instead
of efficient.

Also, make the symbol of the Cheetah version more grepable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-26 16:06:03 -07:00
David S. Miller 56e9b26324 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/llc-2.6 2005-09-26 15:29:31 -07:00
Harald Welte 188bab3ae0 [NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_nat
When you've enabled conntrack and NAT as a module (standard case in all
distributions), and you've also enabled the new conntrack netlink
interface, loading ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will auto-load iptable_nat.ko.
This causes a huge performance penalty, since for every packet you iterate
the nat code, even if you don't want it.

This patch splits iptable_nat.ko into the NAT core (ip_nat.ko) and the
iptables frontend (iptable_nat.ko).  Threfore, ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will
only pull ip_nat.ko, but not the frontend.  ip_nat.ko will "only" allocate
some resources, but not affect runtime performance.

This separation is also a nice step in anticipation of new packet filters
(nf-hipac, ipset, pkttables) being able to use the NAT core.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-26 15:25:11 -07:00