net-2.6.14 tree made

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
I just put up the first batch of changes due for the 2.6.14 networking at: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.14.git Anything that isn't a bug fix will end up there, and once 2.6.13 goes out the door I'll push the stuff in that tree to Linus. Thanks. - To unsubs

Re: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware address

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Matt Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:30:11 -0500 > Do you want a patch for netlink too then, given the ethtool kernel work is > already done? I think what we're going to end up doing is have a netlink interface for the ethtool stuff, so if you add some ethtool bits they

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] tg3: Move tg3 firmware into separate file

2005-07-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
David S. Miller wrote: > From: Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:34:07 -0400 > > >>Debian's policy means that it can't ship the firmware in its kernel >>source package, because that goes in "main" and has to satisfy all kinds >>of requirements. > > > Exactly as I

Re: [PATCH] reduce netfilte sk_buff enlargement

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:04:51 +0200 > The only real in-tree user of nfcache was IPVS, who only needs a single > bit. Unfortunately I couldn't find some other free bit in sk_buff to > stuff that bit into, so I introduced a separate field for them. Maybe >

Re: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware address

2005-07-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:40:07PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware > address > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:43:50 -0500 > > > This patch is the third of three, designed to allow access

Re: [PATCH] convert nfmark and conntrack mark to 32bit

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:42:23 +0200 > As discussed at netconf'05, we convert nfmark and conntrack-mark to be > 32bits even on 64bit architectures. > > Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Harald. - To unsubscribe from this list

[Fwd: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] tg3: Move tg3 firmware into separate file]

2005-07-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] LSM-IPSec Networking Hooks -- authorizing flow_cache_entry's

2005-07-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:50:33PM -0400, jaegert wrote: > > @@ -190,8 +191,9 @@ void *flow_cache_lookup(struct flowi *ke > if (fle->genid == atomic_read(&flow_cache_genid)) { > void *ret = fle->object; > > - if (ret)

Re: [NET]: Kill skb->tc_classid

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:39:11 +0200 > OK, here's the patch to remove it. Dave, please apply together with the > previous patch. Patch applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH 2/2] LSM-IPSec Networking Hooks -- SELinux portion bug fixes

2005-07-18 Thread jaegert
Some bug fixes to the SELinux patch. Regards, Trent. == This patch series implements per packet access control via the extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security associations to

Re: [patch 2/3] skbuff.h: Fix "nocast type" warnings

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:41:59 +0200 > From: Victor Fusco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" > > File/Subsystem:include/linux/skbuff.h > > Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PR

Re: peculiar messages

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick McHardy
Remco den Besten schrieb: L.S., After an upgrade from 2.6.11.12 to 2.6.12.3 I see peculiar messages appearing in my syslog, dmesg and on my console. Before this upgrade I never saw this type of messages. Googling delivers (as of now) two hits on: "ip_local_deliver: bad skb:" Disable CONFIG_

Re: [PATCH] net configs: NETCONSOLE and NETPOLL together

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: randy_dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:27:28 -0700 > Put NETCONSOLE and NETPOLL options together since they are related. > This cuts down on the hassle of flipping back and forth between > the Networking menu and the Network drivers menu to change their > config settings.

Re: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware address

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware address Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:43:50 -0500 > This patch is the third of three, designed to allow access to the > permanent hardware address of a network device. This patch adds a

Re: [patch 1/3] netlink: Fix "nocast type" warnings

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:41:58 +0200 > From: Victor Fusco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" > > File/Subsystem:net/netlink/af_netlink.c > > Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 3/3] net/sctp/objcnt: Audit return code of create_proc_*

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:42:00 +0200 > From: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Audit return of create_proc_* functions. > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe fro

Re: [PATCH] [PKT_SCHED]: Remove debugging leftover from textsearch ematch

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:35:02 +0200 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Thomas. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vge

Re: [PATCH] [PKT_SCHED]: Reduce branch mispredictions in pfifo_fast_dequeue

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:36:36 +0200 > The current call to __qdisc_dequeue_head leads to a branch > misprediction for every loop iteration, the fact that the > most common priority is 2 makes this even worse. This issue > has been brought up by Eric Dumazet

Re: 2.6.12 and 82559er ok with eepro100, not ok with e100.

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Beers
> What eeprom part and vendor are you using? > atmel 93C46B > your eeprom seems to have 64 words. The addr_len being incorrect > might be causing a problem. is there any chance you could try hard > coding it? I tried this, it did not help, the reads were still bogus. I'm still leaning toward

peculiar messages

2005-07-18 Thread Remco den Besten
L.S., After an upgrade from 2.6.11.12 to 2.6.12.3 I see peculiar messages appearing in my syslog, dmesg and on my console. Before this upgrade I never saw this type of messages. Googling delivers (as of now) two hits on: "ip_local_deliver: bad skb:" http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/12/net/cor

[PATCH 1/2] LSM-IPSec Networking Hooks -- authorizing flow_cache_entry's

2005-07-18 Thread jaegert
This patch adds LSM hooks to the XFRM subsystem code. This patch differs from previous ones in that an authorizer function pointer is passed to flow_cache_lookup in order to use LSM to authorize previously cached entries -- as suggested in my reply to Herbert. This approach is consistent with how

Re: [PATCH] IPSec anti-replay sequence numbers

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ulrich Weber schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IPSec uses sequence numbers to protect against replay attacks. So far there is no way to get or set these sequence numbers in the kernel. The attached patches will remedy these issues. Any comments are welcome! :) I wo

[PATCH] [PKT_SCHED]: Reduce branch mispredictions in pfifo_fast_dequeue

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Graf
The current call to __qdisc_dequeue_head leads to a branch misprediction for every loop iteration, the fact that the most common priority is 2 makes this even worse. This issue has been brought up by Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but unlike his solution which was to manually unroll the loop, th

[PATCH] [PKT_SCHED]: Remove debugging leftover from textsearch ematch

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: net-2.6/net/sched/em_text.c === --- net-2.6.orig/net/sched/em_text.c2005-06-24 13:17:08.0 +0200 +++ net-2.6/net/sched/em_text.c 2005-07-17 19:33:30.0 +0200 @@

[PATCH] IPSec anti-replay sequence numbers

2005-07-18 Thread Ulrich Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IPSec uses sequence numbers to protect against replay attacks. So far there is no way to get or set these sequence numbers in the kernel. The attached patches will remedy these issues. Any comments are welcome! :) I would be pleased if at lea