Re: [GIT PATCH 2.6.15-rc6] IPV6 Fixes

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:55:04 +0900 (JST) > Please pull the following changesets and push them to the 2.6.15 queue. > These fix, basically, random "FAIL"s in IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 > Self Test in IPv6 Core Protocols. I will look at this tomorrow, tha

Re: 2.6.15-rc6: known regressions in the kernel Bugzilla

2005-12-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:13:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The following bug in the kernel Bugzilla contains a regressions in > 2.6.15-rc without a patch: > - #5760 No sound with snd_intel8x0 & ALi M5455 chipset > (kobject_register failed) We put code in the kobjet to report when call

[GIT PATCH 2.6.15-rc6] IPV6 Fixes

2005-12-21 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Hello. I'm sorry for taking last minutes. Please pull the following changesets and push them to the 2.6.15 queue. These fix, basically, random "FAIL"s in IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 Self Test in IPv6 Core Protocols. Changesets are available at: git://git.skbuff.net/gitroot/yoshfuji/linux-2.6.1

[PATCH]: fix policy updates missed by sockets

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
Miyazawa-san, I did not forget about this bug! :-) To recall, the problem is that when new policies are inserted, sockets do not see the update (but all new route lookups do). This bug is related to the SA insertion stale route issue solved recently, and this policy visibility problem can be fix

Re: [PATCH 0/4] TCP Cubic updates for 2.6.16

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:22:25 -0800 > This set of patches: > * precomputes constants used in TCP cubic > * uses Newton/Raphson for cube root > * adds find largest set bit 64 to make initial estimate Looks good, all applied. Thanks Stephen. - To unsubsc

Re: [PATCH 4/4] TCP Cubic use Newton-Raphson

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:36:08 -0800 > $ ./croot 1000 > > Opteron 2.0 Ghz > math 9671505106 1.230814 > old 9676503359 1.287217 > bisect 9666502089 1.074139 > newton 9671507303 1.168087 > > Xeon (32bit) 2.4 Ghz > math 9671505106 3.047887 > old 9676

Re: [PATCH RFC]: ipv6 addrconf async jobs

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:28:14 +0900 (JST) > We could not boot with the latest patch, and got oops. > To fix the oops, we definitely need the following patch. > > Now I'm running some regression tests with the patch. Thank you for the fix. I'll keep

Re: [PATCH] netem: packet corruption option

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:04:12 -0800 > Here is a new feature for netem in 2.6.16. It adds the ability to > randomly corrupt packets with netem. A version was done by > Hagen Paul Pfeifer, but I redid it to handle the cases of backwards > compatibility

Re: [PATCH] DCCP: Typo

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:07:30 +1300 > Please apply to net-2.6 for 2.6.15 tree. > > I hope to actually change this behaviour shortly but this will help > anybody grepping code at present. > > Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks

Re: [PATCH 0/5] bridge update for 2.6.16

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:19:49 -0800 > Number of new features for 2.6.16. > * limited ethtool > * set hardware address of bridge pseudo-interface > * speed detection when link carrier changes Looks good, all applied. Thanks Stephen.

Re: [PATCH] Fix IPv6 address deletion

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:43:48 +0900 (JST) > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:28:25 +0200), Kristian > Slavov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > If you add more than one IPv6 address belonging to the same prefix and > > delete the

Re: [PATCH] VLAN: Add two missing checks to vlan_ioctl_handler()

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Mika Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:50:15 +0200 > In vlan_ioctl_handler() the code misses couple checks for > error return values. > > Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good, applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

2.6.15-rc6: known regressions in the kernel Bugzilla

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
The following bugs in the kernel Bugzilla [1] contain regressions in 2.6.15-rc compared to 2.6.14 with patches: - #5632 forcedeth driver occasionally hangs - #5758 x86_64: PANIC: early exception The following bug in the kernel Bugzilla contains a regressions in 2.6.15-rc without a patch: - #5760

net-2.6.16 rebased

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
Some conflicting patches (namely to net/ipv6/addrconf.c) went into Linus's tree so I had to rebase. All conflicts were resolved and it should show up on kernel.org shortly. I'll start processing my 2.6.16 patch backlog :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in th

Resubmit: [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI support

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
This patch against 2.6.14 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 functionali

Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)

2005-12-21 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:48:22PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi Lennert, Hello, > > > The main question I have is, where should the IXP4xx access-library > > > be located in the kernel directory structure? > > > > Maybe you can explain to the list readers what it is and what it does? > > It

Re: [Patch] RTnetlink multicast groups bug

2005-12-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sjoerd Simons) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:27:31 +0100 > Attached patch fixes this. Other members were similarly broken and a proper full patch was posted and integrated yesterday. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a messag

[Patch] RTnetlink multicast groups bug

2005-12-21 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, While working on a small application using netlink i noticed that i wasn't receiving ipv6 address updates. When the conversion from bitmask to group numbers took place the fact that one bit is skipped between RTMGRP_IPV4_ROUTE and RTMGRP_IPV6_IFADDR wasn't taken into account in the

[PATCH] VLAN: Add two missing checks to vlan_ioctl_handler()

2005-12-21 Thread Mika Kukkonen
In vlan_ioctl_handler() the code misses couple checks for error return values. Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/8021q/vlan.c |6 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c index 91e412b..67465b6 100644 ---

Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.14.3] skge: handle out of memory on restart

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is a backport of the patches posted for 2.6.15 to handle the cases > where the skge driver needs to reallocate receive buffers and fails. > This version is for 2.6.14 stable series only, the seven separate patches > sent yesterday for 2.6.15 do

[PATCH] NETROM: Fix three if-statements in nr_state1_machine()

2005-12-21 Thread Mika Kukkonen
I found these while compiling with extra gcc warnings; considering the indenting surely they are not intentional? Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/netrom/nr_in.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_in.c b/net/netrom/

RE: [patch 1/1] git-netdev-all: s2io warning fix

2005-12-21 Thread Ananda Raju
Hi Is there any was we can get the latest s2io driver changes accepted by kernel community. I tried to get the latest source using #git pull rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git The s2io.c which I got doesn't contain modification to UFO and the s2io warning

Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:08:49PM +, Al Viro wrote: > Solution is fairly simple: Just to clarify: said solution is already in the tree... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kerne

Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:08:49 + Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:35:19AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Right now there is a hole in the module ref counting system because > > there is no proper ref counting for sysctl tables used by modules. > > This means t

Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:35:19AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Right now there is a hole in the module ref counting system because > there is no proper ref counting for sysctl tables used by modules. > This means that if an application is holding /proc/sys/foo open and > module that created i

Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:42:02 +0100 Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:35 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > This patch fixes that by maintaining source compatibility via macro. > > I am sure someone already thought of this, it just doesn't appear to > > ha

Re: [PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:35 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > This patch fixes that by maintaining source compatibility via macro. > I am sure someone already thought of this, it just doesn't appear to > have made it in yet. isn't it more consistent to give the sysctl table itself an .owner fie

[PATCH] handle module ref count on sysctl tables.

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Right now there is a hole in the module ref counting system because there is no proper ref counting for sysctl tables used by modules. This means that if an application is holding /proc/sys/foo open and module that created it is unloaded, then the application touches the file the kernel will oops.

Fwd: [ANN] bcm43xx software encryption support

2005-12-21 Thread Michael Buesch
This mail was initially sent to lkml, only. Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed to the netdev list. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [ANN] bcm43xx software encryption support Date: Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:27 From: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bcm43xx-de

Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)

2005-12-21 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Lennert, On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:52, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > The main question I have is, where should the IXP4xx access-library > > be located in the kernel directory structure? > > Maybe you can explain to the list

Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)

2005-12-21 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > The main question I have is, where should the IXP4xx access-library > be located in the kernel directory structure? Maybe you can explain to the list readers what it is and what it does? If it's ixp4xx-specific, arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/sungem.c: gem_remove_one mustn't be __devexit

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:23:18PM +0100, Nils Meyer wrote: > Hi, Hi Nils, > When compiling 2.6.15-rc6 or 2.6.14.4 on my sparc I get the following error: > > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from drivers/built-in.o [*] > > After calling scripts/reference_discarded.pl it gives

Re: [patch 4/5] spidernet: fix HW structures for 64 bit dma_addr_t

2005-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Assumptions or not, we have a standard way of documenting these > assumptions in the source code... __be32 and cpu_to_be32() do the right > thing (become no-ops) on BE, while ensuring that we can continue to use > valuable source checking tools. If the Cell drivers ever n

Re: [PATCH] Fix IPv6 address deletion

2005-12-21 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:28:25 +0200), Kristian Slavov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > If you add more than one IPv6 address belonging to the same prefix and > delete the address that was last added, routing table entry for that > prefix is also deleted. : > Signed-off

[PATCH] Fix IPv6 address deletion

2005-12-21 Thread Kristian Slavov
Hi, If you add more than one IPv6 address belonging to the same prefix and delete the address that was last added, routing table entry for that prefix is also deleted. Tested on 2.6.14.4 To reproduce: ip addr add 3ffe::1/64 dev eth0 ip addr add 3ffe::2/64 dev eth0 /* wait DAD */ sleep 1 ip ad

Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)

2005-12-21 Thread Stefan Roese
I am trying to integrate the IXP4xx NPE ethernet support into the linux kernel (2.6). Before you start, I know of the license problems with the IXP4xx software. We have a version of the Intel IXP4xx access-library licensed under the revised BSD license. So we should (hopefully) be able to integ

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] TCP/IP Critical socket communication mechanism

2005-12-21 Thread David Stevens
> Why not do it the other way? "If you don't hear from me for 2 minutes, > do a switchover". Then all you have to do is _not_ to send a packet -- > easier to do. > > Anything else seems overkill. > Pavel Because in some of the scenarios, including ours, it isn't a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] TCP/IP Critical socket communication mechanism

2005-12-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > If it is only one place, why not pre-allocate one "I'm sick now" > > skb and hold onto it. Any bigger solution seems to snowball into > > a huge mess. > > But the problem is even sending/receiving a single packet can cause > multiple dynamic allocations in the networking path all the way