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: (235 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Add H.323 conntrack/NAT helper
  [TG3]: Don't mark tg3_test_registers() as returning const.
  [IPV6]: Cleanups for net/ipv6/addrconf.c (kzalloc, early exit) v2
  [IPV6]: Nearly complete kzalloc cleanup for net/ipv6
  [IPV6]: Cleanup of net/ipv6/reassambly.c
  [BRIDGE]: Remove duplicate const from is_link_local() argument type.
  [DECNET]: net/decnet/dn_route.c: fix inconsequent NULL checking
  [TG3]: make drivers/net/tg3.c:tg3_request_irq() static
  [BRIDGE]: use LLC to send STP
  [LLC]: llc_mac_hdr_init const arguments
  [BRIDGE]: allow show/store of group multicast address
  [BRIDGE]: use llc for receiving STP packets
  [BRIDGE]: stp timer to jiffies cleanup
  [BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables
  [BRIDGE]: netfilter inline cleanup
  [BRIDGE]: netfilter VLAN macro cleanup
  [BRIDGE]: netfilter dont use __constant_htons
  [BRIDGE]: netfilter whitespace
  [BRIDGE]: optimize frame pass up
  [BRIDGE]: use kzalloc
  ...

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 7fda03d338d1..950dc55e5192 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ enum netdev_state_t
         __LINK_STATE_SCHED,
         __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER,
         __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED,
-        __LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING
+        __LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING,
+        __LINK_STATE_DORMANT,
 };
 
 
@@ -335,11 +336,14 @@ struct net_device
          */
 
 
-        unsigned short          flags;  /* interface flags (a la BSD)   */
+        unsigned int            flags;  /* interface flags (a la BSD)   */
         unsigned short          gflags;
         unsigned short          priv_flags; /* Like 'flags' but invisible to userspace. */
         unsigned short          padded; /* How much padding added by alloc_netdev() */
 
+        unsigned char           operstate; /* RFC2863 operstate */
+        unsigned char           link_mode; /* mapping policy to operstate */
+
         unsigned                mtu;    /* interface MTU value          */
         unsigned short          type;   /* interface hardware type      */
         unsigned short          hard_header_len;        /* hardware hdr length  */
@@ -708,12 +712,18 @@ static inline void dev_put(struct net_device *dev)
         atomic_dec(&dev->refcnt);
 }
 
-#define __dev_put(dev) atomic_dec(&(dev)->refcnt)
-#define dev_hold(dev) atomic_inc(&(dev)->refcnt)
+static inline void dev_hold(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+        atomic_inc(&dev->refcnt);
+}
 
 /* Carrier loss detection, dial on demand. The functions netif_carrier_on
  * and _off may be called from IRQ context, but it is caller
  * who is responsible for serialization of these calls.
+ *
+ * The name carrier is inappropriate, these functions should really be
+ * called netif_lowerlayer_*() because they represent the state of any
+ * kind of lower layer not just hardware media.
  */
 
 extern void linkwatch_fire_event(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -729,6 +739,29 @@ extern void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev);
 
 extern void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev);
 
+static inline void netif_dormant_on(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+        if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_DORMANT, &dev->state))
+                linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
+}
+
+static inline void netif_dormant_off(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+        if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_DORMANT, &dev->state))
+                linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
+}
+
+static inline int netif_dormant(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+        return test_bit(__LINK_STATE_DORMANT, &dev->state);
+}
+
+
+static inline int netif_oper_up(const struct net_device *dev) {
+        return (dev->operstate == IF_OPER_UP ||
+                dev->operstate == IF_OPER_UNKNOWN /* backward compat */);
+}
+
 /* Hot-plugging. */
 static inline int netif_device_present(struct net_device *dev)
 {