Re: [PATCH] IPv6: only modify checksum for UDP

2006-11-11 Thread Brian Haley
This is a discussion about Brian's SECOND PATCH which needs fixups. Please forget about the second patch, optimizing this code path isn't worth it if the -1 trick doesn't work in all cases. -Brian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to

Re: bcm43xx-d80211 broadcast reception with WPA

2006-11-11 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:07:05PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > Please _don't_ remove CCs. Sorry, I was sending via the gmane web interface, I guess it doesn't honour CCs. This one's via muttng's NNTP support to gmane, so I _think_ it's going to the right places. > On Saturday 11 November 2006

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-11 Thread Jonathan Day
--- Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use netchannels, which were designed for > exactly that kind of > load. Actually, netchannels are a mechanism I've been looking at intensely, as a way to simplify this and keep it sane, without loosing performance. > You need to process s

Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-11-11 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Generic event handling mechanism. [...] Sorry for the delay again. Kernel work is simply not my highest priority. I've collected my comments on some parts of the patch. I haven't gone through every part of the patch yet. Sorry for the length. ===

Re: why do we mangle checksums for v6 ICMP?

2006-11-11 Thread Bill Fink
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, David Miller wrote: > From: Brian Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:32:18 -0500 > > > Al Viro wrote: > > > AFAICS, the rules are: > > > > > > (1) checksum is 16-bit one's complement of the one's complement sum of > > > relevant 16bit words. > > > > > >

[take24 7/6] kevent: signal notifications.

2006-11-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Signals which were requested to be delivered through kevent subsystem must be registered through usual signal() and others syscalls, this option allows alternative delivery. With KEVENT_SIGNAL_NOMASK flag being set in kevent for set of signals, they will not be delivered in a usual way. Kevents fo

Re: [PATCH 0/3] labeled-ipsec: Repost patchset with updates [Originally: mlsxfrm: Various Fixes]

2006-11-11 Thread Joshua Brindle
Venkat Yekkirala wrote: This patchset is against davem's net-2.6.git. Please apply to 2.6.19. The following are the changes since the previous post of this patchset: 1. Separate BUG_ON usage per Eric's suggestion. 2. Replace security_sid_compare with a simple sid compare check per a suggest

Re: bcm43xx-d80211 broadcast reception with WPA

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Buesch
Please _don't_ remove CCs. On Saturday 11 November 2006 07:32, Paul Hampson wrote: > Michael Buesch bu3sch.de> writes: > > > On Thursday 09 November 2006 23:23, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > I've been backporting the bcm43xx-d80211 driver to whatever the released > > > 2.6 kernel was using the rt2x0

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:34:33AM -0800, Jonathan Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > First of all, is it possible (and/or "reasonable > > > practice") when developing a network driver to do > > > zero-copy transfers between main memory and the > > > network device? > > > > What do you mean? >

Re: [GIT PULL 2.6.20] IPv6 Updates

2006-11-11 Thread David Miller
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:15:14 -0800 (PST) > Please consider pulling following changesets from > "2.6.19-rc5-net-2.6.20-20061110-to-davem" branch at: > git://git.linux-ipv6.org/gitroot/yoshfuji/linux-2.6-dev.git > > Regards, > > HEADLINES >