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* [NET]: Do not check netif_running() and carrier state in ->poll()David S. Miller2008-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | Drivers do this to try to break out of the ->poll()'ing loop when the device is being brought administratively down. Now that we have a napi_disable() "pending" state we are going to solve that problem generically. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-structIngo Molnar2007-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I booted up 2.6.24-rc1 this morning [Real early over a brew ;-)] and > was having a problems with multiple ~5 second hangs on SATA/drive init > (Something to do with "EH" something-or-other and resets but I'll > email in separately about it later unless its fixed by the time I get > the chance). > > Anyway, I went to fire up netconsole to get a decent log dump and hit > across the following nasty. Netconsole works fine in 2.6.23.1 with a > similar config and the same kernel parameters. > > A shot of the screen is the only method I could come up with to > capture the log, I hope that is OK, it is pretty readable. > > > The nasty: > http://andotnet.nfshost.com/linux/2.6.24-rc1-netconsole-nullderef.jpg the NULL dereference is here: (gdb) list *0xffffffff804a9504 0xffffffff804a9504 is in natsemi_poll (drivers/net/natsemi.c:717). 712 return count; 713 } 714 715 static inline void __iomem *ns_ioaddr(struct net_device *dev) 716 { 717 return (void __iomem *) dev->base_addr; 718 } 719 which is this code from natsemi.c: 2227 struct net_device *dev = np->dev; 2228 void __iomem * ioaddr = ns_ioaddr(dev); 2229 int work_done = 0; seems like the NAPI changes in -rc1 added an np->dev field but forgot to initialize it ... does the patch below fix the oops for you? Ingo --------------------> Subject: natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> this commit: commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed Oct 3 16:41:36 2007 -0700 [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. added np->dev to drivers/net/natsemi.c's struct netdev_private, but forgot to initialize that new field upon driver init. The result was a predictable NULL dereference oops the first time the hardware generated an interrupt. Reported-by: Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* Typo: depricated -> deprecatedRolf Eike Beer2007-10-19
| | | | | | | Typo: depricated -> deprecated Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* natsemi: Check return value for pci_enable_device()Mark Brown2007-10-15
| | | | | | | pci_enable_device() is __must_check so do that in natsemi_resume(). Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Use round_jiffies() for slow timersMark Brown2007-10-15
| | | | | | | | | Unless we have failed to fill the RX ring the timer used by the natsemi driver is not particularly urgent and can use round_jiffies() to allow grouping with other timers. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Use NATSEMI_TIMER_FREQ consistentlyMark Brown2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | The natsemi driver has a define NATSEMI_TIMER_FREQ which looks like it controls the normal frequency of the chip poll timer but in fact only takes effect for the first run of the timer. Adjust the value of the define to match that used by the timer and use the define consistently. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* network drivers: sparse warning fixesStephen Hemminger2007-10-10
| | | | | | | Fix some of the easy warnings in network device drivers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()Joe Perches2007-10-10
| | | | | | | This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to remove it. The number of people that could object because they're maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small. [ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.Stephen Hemminger2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* natsemi: fix netdev error acountingAndrew Morton2007-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a detailed netdev error is counted, we also must account for it in the aggregated error count. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8106 Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Chongfeng Hu <loveminix@yahoo.com.cn> Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [netdrvr] natsemi: Fix device removal bugJeff Garzik2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This episode illustrates how an overused warning can train people to ignore that warning, which winds up hiding bugs. The warning drivers/net/natsemi.c: In function ‘natsemi_remove1’: drivers/net/natsemi.c:3222: warning: ignoring return value of ‘device_create_file’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result is oft-ignored, even though at close inspection one notices this occurs in the /remove/ function, not normally where creation occurs. A quick s/create/remove/ and we are fixed, with the warning gone. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().David S. Miller2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data() so just get rid of it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* natsemi irq flagsGregory Haskins2007-06-20
| | | | | | | The spinlock irq flags should be a unsigned long to properly support 64 bit Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* remove broken URLs from net drivers' outputMarkus Dahms2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | Remove broken URLs (www.scyld.com) from network drivers' logging output. URLs in comments and other strings are left intact. Signed-off-by: Markus Dahms <dahms@fh-brandenburg.de> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> igned-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Subject: natsemi: Allow users to disable workaround for DspCfg resetMark Brown2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The natsemi driver contains a workaround for broken hardware which can partially reset the chip at unpredictable times, detected by checking for spontaneous changes in the DspCfg register. The effects of the hardware bug appear to be variable and can range from minor problems like small numbers of corrupted packets to major ones such as the chip becoming non-functional. In the case of minor problems the chip reconfiguration required to work around the hardware can cause more problems than the bug itself. Since we have no way of automatically determining how badly the problem manifests on any given system provide an option in sysfs allowing users to disable the workaround at runtime and provides a module option to set the default. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Improve diagnostics for DspCfg workaroundMark Brown2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | The natsemi driver has a workaround for broken hardware which resets itself from time to time. There is a diagnostic message for this workaround but it is not printed by default, making the driver behavior more obscure than it needs to be. Make the message be displayed by default. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* natsemi: Avoid IntrStatus lossage if RX state machine resets.broonie@sirena.org.uk2007-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the poll routine for the natsemi driver so that if the driver detects an RX state machine lockup then no interrupts will be lost while the driver recovers from that. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Fix NAPI for interrupt sharingbroonie@sirena.org.uk2007-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The interrupt status register for the natsemi chips is clear on read and was read unconditionally from both the interrupt and from the NAPI poll routine, meaning that if the interrupt service routine was called (for example, due to a shared interrupt) while a NAPI poll was scheduled interrupts could be missed. This patch fixes that by ensuring that the interrupt status register is only read by the interrupt handler when interrupts are enabled from the chip. It also reverts a workaround for this problem from the netpoll hook and improves the trace for interrupt events. Thanks to Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> for spotting the issue, Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com> for a simpler method and Simon Blake <simon@citylink.co.nz> for testing resources. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Consistently use interrupt enable/disable functionsbroonie@sirena.org.uk2007-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The natsemi drivers include functions for enabling and disabling interrupts from the chip but these are not used in all code paths. This patch changes the code paths that touch the interrupt enable register to use the functions. In all cases this adds an extra PCI read to post the operation but since none of these are in fast paths this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: netpoll fixesSergei Shtylyov2007-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix two issues in this driver's netpoll path: one usual, with spin_unlock_irq() enabling interrupts which nobody asks it to do (that has been fixed recently in a number of drivers) and one unusual, with poll_controller() method possibly causing loss of interrupts due to the interrupt status register being cleared by a simple read and the interrpupt handler simply storing it, not accumulating. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Fix detection of vanilla natsemi cardsMark Brown2007-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> reported that the addition of support for Aculab E1/T1 cPCI carrier cards broke detection of vanilla natsemi cards. This patch fixes that: the problem is that the driver-specific ta in the PCI device table is an index into a second table and this had not been updated for the vanilla cards. This patch fixes the problem minimally. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Support Aculab E1/T1 PMXc cPCI carrier cardsMark Brown2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | Aculab E1/T1 PMXc cPCI carrier card cards present a natsemi on the cPCI bus with an oversized EEPROM using a direct MII<->MII connection with no PHY. This patch adds a new device table entry supporting these cards. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHYMark Brown2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides code paths which allow the natsemi driver to use the external MII port on the chip but ignore any PHYs that may be attached to it. The link state will be left as it was when the driver started and can be configured via ethtool. Any PHYs that are present can be accessed via the MII ioctl()s. This is useful for systems where the device is connected without a PHY or where either information or actions outside the scope of the driver are required in order to use the PHYs. Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
* drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarationsJeff Garzik2006-09-13
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik2006-09-13
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* Merge branch 'tmp' into upstreamJeff Garzik2006-09-12
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| * [PATCH] Remove more unnecessary driver printk'sAndy Gospodarek2006-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As I promised last week, here is the first pass at removing all unnecessary printk's that exist in network device drivers currently in promiscuous mode. The duplicate messages are not needed so they have been removed. Some of these drivers are quite old and might not need an update, but I did them all anyway. I am currently auditing the remaining conditional printk's and will send out a patch for those soon. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* | drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()Jeff Garzik2006-08-19
|/ | | | | | | From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [netdrvr] Remove Linux-specific changelogs from several Becker template driversJeff Garzik2006-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When in-kernel net drivers branched from Donald Becker's vanilla driver set, in the days before BitKeeper and git, a driver changelog was maintained in the driver source code. These days, the kernel's changelog is far superior and much more accurate, so the in-driver changelogs are removed. Another relic of the Becker/kernel split was version numbering, using "foo-LKx.y.z" notation, resulting in weird version numbers like "1.17b-LK1.1.9". These drivers are for older hardware, and see few changes these days, so the version numbers were all bumped to something more simple. Finally, in xircom_tulip_cb specifically, an additional cleanup removes the always-enabled CARDBUS cpp macro. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner2006-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [netdrvr] natsemi: minor cleanupsJeff Garzik2006-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | * make eeprom size a variable, prepping for future patch * eliminate unused PCI_xxx stuff left over from Becker driver template * convert a few #defines to enum * mark PCI table const, __devinitdata * don't bother with named constant for PCI device id Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [netdrvr] natsemi: Separate out media initialization codeJeff Garzik2006-06-26
| | | | | | | This makes it easier to merge an upcoming patch, and overall makes the code a bit more clean. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [NET]: Add netif_tx_lockHerbert Xu2006-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] net drivers: fix section attributes for gccRandy Dunlap2006-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, gcc doesn't like some __initdata to be const (rodata) and other __initdata not const, so make the non-const __initdata const. gcc errors: drivers/net/bnx2.c:66: error: version causes a section type conflict drivers/net/starfire.c:338: error: version causes a section type conflict drivers/net/typhoon.c:137: error: version causes a section type conflict drivers/net/natsemi.c:241: error: version causes a section type conflict Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] natsemi: Support oversized EEPROMsMark Brown2006-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | The natsemi chip can have a larger EEPROM attached than it itself uses for configuration. This patch adds support for user space access to such an EEPROM. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI and a bugfixMark Brown2006-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | As documented in National application note 1287 the RX state machine on the natsemi chip can lock up under some conditions (mostly related to heavy load). When this happens a series of bogus packets are reported by the chip including some oversized frames prior to the final lockup. This patch implements the fix from the application note: when an oversized packet is reported it resets the RX state machine, dropping any currently pending packets. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI and a bugfixMark Brown2006-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the natsemi driver to use NAPI. It was originally based on one written by Harald Welte, though it has since been modified quite a bit, most extensively in order to remove the ability to disable NAPI since none of the other drivers seem to provide that functionality any more. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* Massive net driver const-ification.Arjan van de Ven2006-03-03
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* [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers.David S. Miller2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4482] New: natsemi: incorrect initialization of ↵Herbert Xu2005-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | IPv6 Neighbor-discovery multicast On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:36:42PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote: > Summary: natsemi: incorrect initialization of IPv6 Neighbor- > discovery multicast I've got a pair of FA312 cards and this problem has bothered me for ages. This has finally prompted me to do something about it :) Turns out that somebody wasn't following the documentation. We were doing 16-bit writes to 32-bit registers which led to some addresses working and others not so lucky. This patch should fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!