Re: RFC 2863 patch

2005-12-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:47:18 +0100 > Probably someone else should look at it/them? I'm the networking maintainer, you have to wait for me to get to it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: RFC 2863 patch

2005-12-27 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What the RFC 2863 patch status? > > I haven't had time to review, and I'll be %100 honest with you > that it's at the bottom of my priority list, it simply isn't > that interesting :-) Probably someone else should look at it/them? -- Krzysztof Hal

[PATCH] tg3: fixup tot_len calculation

2005-12-27 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Turning struct iphdr::tot_len into __be16 added sparse warning. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c index cefb0c0..729a107 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c @@ -3650,7 +3650,7 @@ static int tg3_start_xmit(struc

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

2005-12-27 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Dec 27 2005, at 10:45, Stefan Roese was caught saying: > > Understood. But a total rewrite of this code is unfortunately not an option, > since it's just too much work (without a sponsor). > > > > It most likely is the same code. Currently it's version 2.0. This version > > > is available und

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

2005-12-27 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Dec 27 2005, at 15:08, Krzysztof Halasa was caught saying: > jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No experience with the 4xx but some with the other intel NPs. > > Is the driver a "dual stack" approach that Intel typically > > has? > > No, the Ethernet driver is Linux-only and uses the acce

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

2005-12-27 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Dec 27 2005, at 08:49, jamal was caught saying: > A question for you: Does the 4XX allow you to rewrite the > microcode? And if yes, why would you push this intel specific > microcode? No. The NPEs on the 4xx are not user-programmable like the uEngines. You basically download the FW into the NP

Re: [PATCH] Socket filter instruction limit validation

2005-12-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: "Kris Katterjohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 02:36:06 -0800 > This patch checks to make sure that the number of instructions doesn't surpass > BPF_MAXINSNS in sk_chk_filter(). > > Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I added your patch, and removed the check on

Re: [PATCH 1/1][TCP]: Don't use __constant_htonl for a non const arg

2005-12-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:01:55 -0200 > Please consider pulling from: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.16.git Pulled, thanks Arnaldo. I'm going to apply Yoshifuji's IPV6 deadlock fix to 2.6.15, and then rebase

Re: RFC 2863 patch

2005-12-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:13:25 +0100 > What the RFC 2863 patch status? I haven't had time to review, and I'll be %100 honest with you that it's at the bottom of my priority list, it simply isn't that interesting :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 2/2] add a dev_ioctl fallback to sock_ioctl

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
Christoph Hellwig wrote: Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default fallback in their ioctl implementations. This patch adds a fallback to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD. This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we d

[PATCH] PPC44x EMAC driver: disable TX status deferral in half-duplex mode

2005-12-27 Thread Eugene Surovegin
Disable TX status deferral (EMACx_MR[MWSW=001]) in half-duplex mode. I have two reports when EMAC stops transmitting when connected to a hub. TX ring debug printouts show complete mess when this happens, probably hardware collision handling doesn't work quite well in this mode. This is relevant

[PATCH 2/2] add a dev_ioctl fallback to sock_ioctl

2005-12-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default fallback in their ioctl implementations. This patch adds a fallback to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD. This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't need to export dev_ioc

[PATCH 1/1][TCP]: Don't use __constant_htonl for a non const arg

2005-12-27 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi David, Please consider pulling from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.16.git - Arnaldo tree 006d8249db3be900c25e634fe1db2ab4000bfdc5 parent eab8454851aad8239612b002c19c0a8e7a38b85f author Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1135703877 -0200 committer Arn

Re: ip_sabotage_out crash...

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Lazaridis
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:24:06AM -0500, Steve Lazaridis wrote: Hi, Hello, I'm running on a MIPSbe(AMD au1550) CPU and I'm getting kernel crashes when pumping a lot of traffic through two bridges using iperf. Can you reproduce it without the binary-only ker

Re: ip_sabotage_out crash...

2005-12-27 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:24:06AM -0500, Steve Lazaridis wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I'm running on a MIPSbe(AMD au1550) CPU and I'm getting kernel crashes > when pumping a lot of traffic through two bridges using iperf. Can you reproduce it without the binary-only kernel modules loaded? --L - T

[PATCH] gnetlink: consistent command type

2005-12-27 Thread jamal
Dave, This minor bug fix should probably go into 2.6.15. cheers, jamal fix cmd type in genl_ops to be consistent to u8 Signed-off-by: Per Liden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 52d8b1a..

ip_sabotage_out crash...

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Lazaridis
Hi, I'm running on a MIPSbe(AMD au1550) CPU and I'm getting kernel crashes when pumping a lot of traffic through two bridges using iperf. kernel: linux-2.6.13-rc7 ~ from mips-linux.org The setup is: [host a]<-->[bridge a]<>[bridge b]<-->[host b] host a: iperf client host b: iperf server

[PATCH] IPV6: Fix one more dead lock...

2005-12-27 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Hello. Again, we need to fix one more dead lock... sorry.. We need to release idev->lcok before we call addrconf_dad_stop(). It calls ipv6_addr_del(), which will hold idev->lock. Bug spotted by Yasuyuki KOZAKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git

Re: RFC 2863 patch

2005-12-27 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 15:13 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Hi, > > What the RFC 2863 patch status? It is in Dave's hands - pending review and publication being targeted for possibly 2.6.16 (Dave to make that call). cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netd

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

2005-12-27 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 15:05 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:49:50AM -0500, jamal wrote: > > > A question for you: Does the 4XX allow you to rewrite the microcode? > > As far as I know, there are no docs for this, at least not any publicly > available ones. > > Chapte

RFC 2863 patch

2005-12-27 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Hi, What the RFC 2863 patch status? -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

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

2005-12-27 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No experience with the 4xx but some with the other intel NPs. > Is the driver a "dual stack" approach that Intel typically > has? No, the Ethernet driver is Linux-only and uses the access library. Both are crap BTW, the library is much worse. Actually I think

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

2005-12-27 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:49:50AM -0500, jamal wrote: > A question for you: Does the 4XX allow you to rewrite the microcode? As far as I know, there are no docs for this, at least not any publicly available ones. Chapter 4 in the IXP42X Developer's Manual is titled "Network Processor Engines (N

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

2005-12-27 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 10:54 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > Yes, that's the ethernet driver using this access lib to > communicate with the > NPE's. This driver is published under the GPL. > No experience with the 4xx but some with the other intel NPs. Is the driver a "dual stack" approach tha

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

2005-12-27 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:45:23AM +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? > > > > > > It'

Re: ipv4 duplicate rules

2005-12-27 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 10:03 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > In theory this patch is absolutely correct and we should go > that way one day. The problem is that iproute sets NLM_F_EXCL > by default when adding rules so this patch would modify the > behaviour of all existing "ip rule add" usages. > > T

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

2005-12-27 Thread Stefan Roese
On Saturday 24 December 2005 17:36, Marc Singer wrote: > > > It most likely is the same code. Currently it's version 2.0. This > > > version is available under a special Intel license > > > (http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp425swr1.htm) > > > and under the BSD license (when

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

2005-12-27 Thread Stefan Roese
On Saturday 24 December 2005 15:07, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Dec 21 2005, at 15:48, Stefan Roese was caught saying: > > 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

Re: IPv6 regression in net-2.6.16

2005-12-27 Thread David S. Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:08:26 +0900 (JST) > Chinen-san has run tests against current net-2.6.16 tree. > We could run tests (Phase-1 for Host, Phase-2 Core for Host), > we see some regression in IPv6 neighbor discovery. > We have not tracked down closel

Re: ipv4 duplicate rules

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Graf
> > I realized that in fib_rules.c the inet_rtm_new_rule() > > function adds rules without checking if they already > > exist. This may result in duplicate rules being added. > > It makes it difficult to remove a rule when it is > > added multiple times (with the intention that it would > > be adde

IPv6 regression in net-2.6.16

2005-12-27 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
://testlab.linux-ipv6.org/tahi-autorun.2/ct-v6logo2-host_net-2.6.16-20051227/ Phase-1 (Host) at: http://testlab.linux-ipv6.org/tahi-autorun.2/ct-v6logo1-host_net-2.6.16-20051227/ Regards, -- YOSHIFUJI Hideaki @ USAGI Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG-FP : 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 480