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Paul Moore b9e3dd0ea1 [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
Add a pointer to the OSDL wiki page on Generic Netlink.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:10 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 2b5f6dcce5 [XFRM]: Fix aevent structuring to be more complete.
aevents can not uniquely identify an SA. We break the ABI with this
patch, but consensus is that since it is not yet utilized by any
(known) application then it is fine (better do it now than later).

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:22:25 -08:00
Ian McDonald 82e3ab9dbe [DCCP]: Adds the tx buffer sysctls
This one got lost on the way from Ian to Gerrit to me, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:24:42 -08:00
Ian McDonald ddfe10b824 [DCCP]: Update Documentation
This patch just updates DCCP documentation a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:24:40 -08:00
Gerrit Renker ba4e58eca8 [NET]: Supporting UDP-Lite (RFC 3828) in Linux
This is a revision of the previously submitted patch, which alters
the way files are organized and compiled in the following manner:

	* UDP and UDP-Lite now use separate object files
	* source file dependencies resolved via header files
	  net/ipv{4,6}/udp_impl.h
	* order of inclusion files in udp.c/udplite.c adapted
	  accordingly

[NET/IPv4]: Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828)

This patch adds support for UDP-Lite to the IPv4 stack, provided as an
extension to the existing UDPv4 code:
        * generic routines are all located in net/ipv4/udp.c
        * UDP-Lite specific routines are in net/ipv4/udplite.c
        * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/udplite
        * shared API with extensions for partial checksum coverage

[NET/IPv6]: Extension for UDP-Lite over IPv6

It extends the existing UDPv6 code base with support for UDP-Lite
in the same manner as per UDPv4. In particular,
        * UDPv6 generic and shared code is in net/ipv6/udp.c
        * UDP-Litev6 specific extensions are in net/ipv6/udplite.c
        * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp6 and /proc/net/udplite6
        * support for IPV6_ADDRFORM
        * aligned the coding style of protocol initialisation with af_inet6.c
        * made the error handling in udpv6_queue_rcv_skb consistent;
          to return `-1' on error on all error cases
        * consolidation of shared code

[NET]: UDP-Lite Documentation and basic XFRM/Netfilter support

The UDP-Lite patch further provides
        * API documentation for UDP-Lite
        * basic xfrm support
        * basic netfilter support for IPv4 and IPv6 (LOG target)

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:46 -08:00
Gerrit Renker 2e2e9e92bd [DCCP]: Add sysctls to control retransmission behaviour
This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control
packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation).

It removes 4 FIXMEs from the code.

The close resemblance of sysctl variables to their TCP analogues is emphasised
not only by their name, but also by giving them the same initial values.
This is useful since there is not much practical experience with DCCP yet.

Furthermore, with regard to the previous patch, it is now possible to limit
the number of keepalive-Responses by setting net.dccp.default.request_retries
(also a bit like in TCP).

Lastly, added documentation of all existing DCCP sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:22:18 -08:00
Gerrit Renker 6f4e5fff1e [DCCP]: Support for partial checksums (RFC 4340, sec. 9.2)
This patch does the following:
  a) introduces variable-length checksums as specified in [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2]
  b) provides necessary socket options and documentation as to how to use them
  c) basic support and infrastructure for the Minimum Checksum Coverage feature
     [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2.1]: acceptability tests, user notification and user
     interface

In addition, it

 (1) fixes two bugs in the DCCPv4 checksum computation:
 	* pseudo-header used checksum_len instead of skb->len
	* incorrect checksum coverage calculation based on dccph_x
 (2) removes dccp_v4_verify_checksum() since it reduplicates code of the
     checksum computation; code calling this function is updated accordingly.
 (3) now uses skb_checksum(), which is safer than checksum_partial() if the
     sk_buff has is a non-linear buffer (has pages attached to it).
 (4) fixes an outstanding TODO item:
        * If P.CsCov is too large for the packet size, drop packet and return.

The code has been tested with applications, the latest version of tcpdump now
comes with support for partial DCCP checksums.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:22:09 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger ef56e622c6 [NET] ip-sysctl.txt: Alphabetize.
Rearrange TCP entries in alpha order.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:51 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger ce7bc3bf15 [TCP]: Restrict congestion control choices.
Allow normal users to only choose among a restricted set of congestion
control choices.  The default is reno and what ever has been configured
as default. But the policy can be changed by administrator at any time.

For example, to allow any choice:
    cp /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control \
       /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_allowed_congestion_control

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:49 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 3ff825b28d [TCP]: Add tcp_available_congestion_control sysctl.
Create /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control
that reflects currently available TCP choices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:48 -08:00
Andy Fleming e8a2b6a420 [PATCH] PHY: Add support for configuring the PHY connection interface
Most PHYs connect to an ethernet controller over a GMII or MII
interface.  However, a growing number are connected over
different interfaces, such as RGMII or SGMII.

The ethernet driver will tell the PHY what type of connection it
is by setting it manually, or passing it in through phy_connect
(or phy_attach).

Changes include:
* Updates to documentation
* Updates to PHY Lib consumers
* Changes to PHY Lib to add interface support
* Some minor changes to whitespace in phy.h
* gianfar driver now detects interface and passes appropriate
  value to PHY Lib
Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-02 00:33:11 -05:00
Auke Kok de3edab427 e1000: update README for e1000
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-12-02 00:12:01 -05:00
Matt LaPlante 5d3f083d8f Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Matt LaPlante 4ae0edc21b Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letters 'U-Z'.

Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again
+too!  Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...?  Time will
+tell. :)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
Matt LaPlante fa00e7e152 Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letter 'T'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:55:36 +01:00
Paolo Ornati 670e9f34ee Documentation: remove duplicated words
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 53cb47268e Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letter 'S'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:55:17 +02:00
Matt LaPlante d6bc8ac9e1 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 84eb8d0608 Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists.  This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 992caacf11 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 2fe0ae78c6 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
Matt LaPlante a2ffd27516 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:49:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante fff9289b21 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 6c28f2c0f2 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'B'-'C'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some
words starting with the letters 'B'-'C'.  There are also a few grammar fixes
thrown in for Randy. ;)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:46:31 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 3f6dee9b2a Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:45:33 +02:00
Francesco Fondelli f0e82fd0e5 [PKTGEN]: Documentation update
Signed-off-by: Francesco Fondelli <francesco.fondelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:01:48 -07:00
Jeff Garzik c226951b93 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-09-26 13:13:19 -04:00
Jay Vosburgh f5b2b966f0 [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.

	The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25 20:08:09 -04:00
David S. Miller 76a081e5b3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2006-09-24 19:29:57 -07:00
Gerrit Renker 00e4d116a7 [DCCP]: Allow default/fallback service code.
This has been discussed on dccp@vger and removes the necessity for applications
to supply service codes in each and every case.

If an application does not want to provide a service code, that's fine, it will
be given 0. Otherwise, service codes can be set via socket options as before.

This patch has been tested using various client/server configurations
(including listening on multiple service codes).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-09-24 17:49:26 -03:00
Linus Torvalds a319a2773a Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
  net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
  [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
  [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
  [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
  [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
  r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
  e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
  [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
  [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
  [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
  [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
  [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
  drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
  drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
  [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
  [PATCH] sky2: big endian
  [PATCH] sky2: fiber support
  [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
  drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
  [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
  ...

Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
commit 84fa7933a3 that just happened to be
next to unrelated changes in this update.
2006-09-24 10:15:13 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki fbea49e1e2 [IPV6] NDISC: Add proxy_ndp sysctl.
We do not always need proxy NDP functionality even we
enable forwarding.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:20:25 -07:00
Paul Moore 8802f616f6 [NetLabel]: documentation
Documentation for the NetLabel system, this includes a basic overview
of how NetLabel works, how LSM developers can integrate it into their
favorite LSM, as well as documentation on the CIPSO related sysctl
variables.  Also, due to the difficulty of finding expired IETF
drafts, I am including the IETF CIPSO draft that is the basis of the
NetLabel CIPSO implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:31 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala b6340fcd76 [MLSXFRM]: Add security sid to flowi
This adds security to flow key for labeling of flows as also to allow
for making flow cache lookups based on the security label seemless.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:23 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 23b6b0e3e8 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-09-19 15:13:45 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger b3a8a40da5 [TCP]: Turn ABC off.
Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly
penalizes applications that do small writes.  Add better documentation
to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to
turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:02 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 49666145de Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' into upstream 2006-08-19 17:25:47 -04:00
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak fb33f82568 [NET]: Terminology in ip-sysctl.txt
this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl
in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max",
while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values.
Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max"
values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:50 -07:00
Ron Mercer 5a4faa8737 [PATCH] qla3xxx NIC driver
This is a complementary network driver for our ISP4XXX parts.

There is a concurrent effort underway to get the iSCSI driver (qla4xxx)
integrated upstream as well.

I have been through several iterations with the linux-netdev list and have had
much response from Stephen Hemminger.

- Built and tested using kernel 2.6.17-rc4.

- The chip supports two ethernet and two iSCSI functions.

- The functions ql_sem_lock, ql_sem_spinlock, ql_sem_unlock, and
  ql_wait_for_drvr_lock are used to protect resources that are shared across
  the network and iSCSI functions.  This protection is mostly during chip
  initialization and resets, but also include link management.

- The PHY/MII are not exported through ethtool due to the fact that the
  iSCSI function will control the common link at least 50% of the time.

This driver has been through several iterations on the netdev list and we feel
this driver is ready for inclusion in the upstream kernel.

It has been built and tested on x86 and PPC64 platforms.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-29 00:28:51 -04:00
Horms 6ce1669fdb [IPVS]: Add sysctl documentation
* Derived from http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/docs/sysctl.html, v1.4
  maintained by Wensong Zhang

* Adjusted preample to match ip-sysctl.txt

* Sorted options into alphabetical order

* Added expire_quiescent_template

* Removed timeout_* which are no longer present

* Incoporated doc/debug-levels.txt from IPVS source tree into
  description of ipvs_debug

* Minor spelling fixes

* Further editing more than welcome

Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-03 19:35:40 -07:00
Adrian Bunk d0f19d8217 typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
Three typos in only one line...

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 18:28:43 +02:00
David Woodhouse ca6bb5d7ab [NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.
The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, relaxing
the permissions on the /dev/net/tun device node so that they can
actually use those devices will _also_ allow those users to create
arbitrary new devices of their own. This patch corrects that, and
adjusts the recommended permissions for the device node accordingly.

Signed-off-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d0b952a983 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (109 commits)
  [ETHTOOL]: Fix UFO typo
  [SCTP]: Fix persistent slowdown in sctp when a gap ack consumes rx buffer.
  [SCTP]: Send only 1 window update SACK per message.
  [SCTP]: Don't do CRC32C checksum over loopback.
  [SCTP] Reset rtt_in_progress for the chunk when processing its sack.
  [SCTP]: Reject sctp packets with broadcast addresses.
  [SCTP]: Limit association max_retrans setting in setsockopt.
  [PFKEYV2]: Fix inconsistent typing in struct sadb_x_kmprivate.
  [IPV6]: Sum real space for RTAs.
  [IRDA]: Use put_unaligned() in irlmp_do_discovery().
  [BRIDGE]: Add support for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM devices
  [NET]: Add NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM and NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM
  [TG3]: Convert to non-LLTX
  [TG3]: Remove unnecessary tx_lock
  [TCP]: Add tcp_slow_start_after_idle sysctl.
  [BNX2]: Update version and reldate
  [BNX2]: Use CPU native page size
  [BNX2]: Use compressed firmware
  [BNX2]: Add firmware decompression
  [BNX2]: Allow WoL settings on new 5708 chips
  ...

Manual fixup for conflict in drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
2006-06-19 18:55:56 -07:00
David S. Miller 35089bb203 [TCP]: Add tcp_slow_start_after_idle sysctl.
A lot of people have asked for a way to disable tcp_cwnd_restart(),
and it seems reasonable to add a sysctl to do that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu 932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Auke Kok 6224e01dcc [DOC] Update bonding documentation with sysfs info
Bonding documentation needed an update to include sysfs specific
information. This patch adds information on how to change bonding
parameters at runtime using the sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-06-08 11:15:35 -07:00
Jeff Garzik badc48e660 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-05-20 00:03:38 -04:00
Stefan Rompf 3a01c1ef75 [NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-09 15:15:35 -07:00
Zhu Yi 555fd91852 [PATCH] ipw2200: update version stamp to 1.1.2
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-04-24 16:15:56 -04:00
Zhu Yi c6c33a779d [PATCH] README.ipw2200: rename CONFIG_IPW_DEBUG to CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-04-24 16:15:56 -04:00