litmus2008.git/net/ethernet, branch master

[NET]: Validate device addr prior to interface-up

2007-10-24T04:27:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.

2007-10-10T23:52:52+00:00

Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Wrap hard_header_parse

2007-10-10T23:52:51+00:00

Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of
header_ops conversion.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.

2007-10-10T23:52:50+00:00

Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()

2007-10-10T23:51:42+00:00

This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET] ethernet: optimize memcpy and memset

2007-10-10T23:48:26+00:00

The ethernet header management only needs to handle a fixed
size address (6 bytes). If the memcpy/memset are changed to
be passed a constant length, then compiler can optimize for
this case (and if it is smart eliminate string instructions).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr

2007-07-12T02:41:18+00:00

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API

2007-07-11T05:16:21+00:00

Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network
stack.  Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at
the netdev level if they choose to do so.

Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to
know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)

2007-04-26T05:24:32+00:00

For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans

2007-04-26T05:24:30+00:00

One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller