Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Stevens
> give it away on this specific instance. I'm not sure if you should > attribute to hidden agendas what you can explain by "doing the right > thing" (granted, very few companies do this which may make it suspect, > but still..). Pekka, I'm not assuming hidden agendas here; I simply don

Re: [2.6 patch] always export sysctl_{r,w}mem_max

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:04:22 -0600 > So if this is really something we want to stop doing we should > be able to take a few extra moments remove the code from the > two problem drivers, and remove the exports. I've killed the references in dlm and rr

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport softnet_data

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: "Nelson, Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:38:55 -0700 > There is no creation of a pinned_list yet in this path, so I don't think > this would do us much good. The pinned list is created in the generic net/ipv4/tcp.c code, not in the address family specific code. So yo

Re: [PATCH] Compact some ifdefs in the fib code

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:12:26 +0400 > There are places that check for CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES > twice in the same file, but the internals of these #ifdefs > can be merged. > > As a side effect - remove one ifdef from inside a function. > > Signed-off

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote: From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:07:44 -0800 I guess license is no longer required for implementers of ISATAP. Is it right, Fred? https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/550/ Does this also allow license-free redistribution? I

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:07:44 -0800 > > I guess license is no longer required for implementers of ISATAP. > > Is it right, Fred? > > > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/550/ > > Does this also allow license-free redistribution? > > I'm certainly no lawy

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Stevens
> I guess license is no longer required for implementers of ISATAP. > Is it right, Fred? > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/550/ Does this also allow license-free redistribution? I'm certainly no lawyer, but I don't see the point of having a patent that doesn't restrict *something*. :-)

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:37:50 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:26:15 -0800 > > > Last I heard, there are Intellectual Property claims with ISATAP, > > which is why the RFC is n

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:26:15 -0800 > Last I heard, there are Intellectual Property claims with ISATAP, > which is why the RFC is not standards track and which makes it > effectively a proprietary protocol. > > Unless that's been resolved, I think the clai

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Stevens
Last I heard, there are Intellectual Property claims with ISATAP, which is why the RFC is not standards track and which makes it effectively a proprietary protocol. Unless that's been resolved, I think the claim by the IP owner is that it can't be distributed without a license from them. So, maybe

Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: "Templin, Fred L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:15:54 -0800 > Please advise as to next steps. Your email client has mangles the patches, adding line breaks. This makes the patches not apply at all. Please correct this and resubmit, thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [PATCH] Rename "virtual ethernet device" to "virtual ethernet pair device".

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:04:48 +1100 > OK, about the help text. IMHO noone should be using "virtual > ethernet" unqualified, since there are multiple things that now refers to. > > Here's a respin with just the help text changes: Fair enough, applied. - T

[PATCH 1/2] pasemi_mac: Don't set replace-source-address descriptor bits

2007-11-06 Thread Olof Johansson
Don't use the "replace source address with local MAC address" bits, since it causes problems on some variations of the hardware due to an erratum. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: k.org/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c =

[PATCH 2/2] pasemi_mac: Fix CRC checks

2007-11-06 Thread Olof Johansson
Make sure we don't feed packets with bad CRC up the network stack, and discount the packet length as reported from the MAC for the CRC field. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: k.org/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c ==

[PATCH 0/2] pasemi_mac: two bugfixes for 2.6.24

2007-11-06 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi Jeff, Two bugfixes for pasemi_mac for 2.6.24: [PATCH 1/2] pasemi_mac: Don't set replace-source-address descriptor bits [PATCH 2/2] pasemi_mac: Fix CRC checks Thanks, -Olof - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] Rename "virtual ethernet device" to "virtual ethernet pair device".

2007-11-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 14:19:06 David Miller wrote: > If anything, the veth naming makes more sense than the IBM device > cases. > > And that's why I decreed that last time this came up that the naming > for veth was just fine. OK, about the help text. IMHO noone should be using "virtual e

Re: [PATCH] Rename "virtual ethernet device" to "virtual ethernet pair device".

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:09:00 +1100 > There are already iSeries and pSeries virtual ethernet drivers called > veth; calling a local tunnel device "veth" is confusing. > > I didn't rename the module nor the header, to avoid breaking > documentation and user

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc2] net: net_free implicit declaration

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:06:29 -0800 > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Just move the function so that is it known before it is used. > > net/core/net_namespace.c: In function 'copy_net_ns': > net/core/net_namespace.c:97: error: implicit declarati

[PATCH] [IPv4] printk() includes KERN_* constant in net/ipv4/

2007-11-06 Thread FNST-Wang Chen
Fix the printk() without KERN_* constant in net/ipv4. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- af_inet.c |4 ++-- devinet.c |2 +- fib_hash.c|2 +- fib_semantics.c |2

[PATCH] Rename "virtual ethernet device" to "virtual ethernet pair device".

2007-11-06 Thread Rusty Russell
There are already iSeries and pSeries virtual ethernet drivers called veth; calling a local tunnel device "veth" is confusing. I didn't rename the module nor the header, to avoid breaking documentation and userspace programs respectively. But I'd really like to. It'd also be nice to mention "con

Please pull 'upstream-davem' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-11-06 Thread John W. Linville
Dave, Here are a few for when you decide to open net-2.6.25... :-) Thanks, John --- Individual patches are available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/upstream-davem --- The following changes since commit 2655e2cee2d77459fcb7e10228259e4ee0328

[PATCH 2.6.24-rc2] net: net_free implicit declaration

2007-11-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just move the function so that is it known before it is used. net/core/net_namespace.c: In function 'copy_net_ns': net/core/net_namespace.c:97: error: implicit declaration of function 'net_free' net/core/net_namespace.c: At top level: net/core/net_namespace.

[PATCH 03/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is experimental support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT module, and is configured using the unmodified "ip" utility with device names beginning with: "isatap". The following diffs are spec

[PATCH 02/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is experimental support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT module, and is configured using the unmodified "ip" utility with device names beginning with: "isatap". The following diffs are spec

[PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following diffs are specific to the Linux 2.6.23 kernel distribution and implement RFC4214 (Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol - ISATAP). The affected modules are: linux2.6.23/include/linux/if.h linux2.6.23/include/net/addrconf.h li

[PATCH 05/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is experimental support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT module, and is configured using the unmodified "ip" utility with device names beginning with: "isatap". The following diffs are spec

[PATCH 01/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is experimental support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT module, and is configured using the unmodified "ip" utility with device names beginning with: "isatap". The following diffs are spec

[PATCH 04/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support

2007-11-06 Thread Templin, Fred L
From: Fred L. Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is experimental support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT module, and is configured using the unmodified "ip" utility with device names beginning with: "isatap". The following diffs are spec

Re: Possible BUG on net/ipv4/ipcomp.c, line 358 (fwd)

2007-11-06 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:51:57AM +1100, James Morris wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:53:30 +0100 > From: Vicenç <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Possible BUG on net/ipv4/ipcomp.c, line 358 > > Hi James, > > I think there is a

Please pull 'fixes-davem' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-11-06 Thread John W. Linville
Dave, Here are some fixes for 2.6.24... The iwlwifi patch is needed because the iwlwifi drivers routinely end-up associated with the "simple" rate control algorithm, yet those drivers really only work with their own custom algorithms. The other rate control patches are there to satisfy dependenc

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick McHardy
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think there is one more case that matters, which is briding from a device with VLAN stripping for a VLAN not configured locally. The tag will be stripped and will be lost for forwarded packets. I think we should drop such p

Re: netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv4 does not show nf_nat as a user

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick McHardy
Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 11/05/2007 07:12 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333481#c3 This is netfilter kernel problem. There is a usage count for the conntrack_ipv4 module from the nf_nat module, which is not reported by lsmod. This i

Re: [PATCH 01/02] r8169: add PCI ID for the 8168 in the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:19:08 +0100 Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > Really, vendor_id is 1 ? > > Yes, the bug seems to be commonly set in hardware. > > > How about a comment about which board this is. > > B3w4r3 0f Th3 3v1l Fatal1ty

Re: [PATCH 01/02] r8169: add PCI ID for the 8168 in the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard

2007-11-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Really, vendor_id is 1 ? Yes, the bug seems to be commonly set in hardware. > How about a comment about which board this is. B3w4r3 0f Th3 3v1l Fatal1ty M0b0 ? Imho 'git log/blame' will provide enough information for this hack. -- Ueimor - To un

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay Vosburgh wrote: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? Nope, I'm doing a doc update next to incorporate several things, the reordering stuff included (which I plan to change to describe the

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are >we at an impass? Nope, I'm doing a doc update next to incorporate several things, the reordering stuff included (which I plan to change to describe the levels of badness, as

Re: [PATCH 01/02] r8169: add PCI ID for the 8168 in the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:23:54 +0100 Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Edward Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/net/r8169.c |2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0

[PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded

2007-11-06 Thread PJ Waskiewicz
The socket option for packet sockets to return the original ifindex instead of the bonded ifindex will not match multicast traffic. Since this socket option is the most useful for layer 2 traffic and multicast traffic, make the option multicast-aware. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <[EMAIL

[PATCH 01/02] r8169: add PCI ID for the 8168 in the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard

2007-11-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Edward Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/r8169.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c index b94fa7e..702334

[PATCH 02/02] r8169: do not enable the TBI for the 8168 and the 81x0

2007-11-06 Thread Francois Romieu
The 8168c and the 8100e choke on it. I have not seen an indication nor received a report that the TBI is being actively used on the remaining 8168b and 8110. Let's disable it for now until someone complains. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Matthias Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 00/02] pull request for 'upstream-jeff' branch

2007-11-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Please pull from branch 'upstream-jeff' in repository git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git upstream-jeff to get the changes below. Distance from 'master' (f2511f13daaf00fdd206bee7b108f75923a613c6) -

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay - So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? sincerely, rick jones - 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-in

[PATCH 0/2] bonding: Two small fixes

2007-11-06 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Two small fixes to bonding for the mainline. 1: Mishandling of RTNL due to what looks like a merge error. 2: Turn off the new validate_addr check when devices are set up. For backwards compatibility, the bonding master must be able to be set up with a MAC address of all

[PATCH 2/2] bonding: don't validate address at device open

2007-11-06 Thread Jay Vosburgh
The standard validate_addr handler refuses to accept the all zeroes address as valid. However, it's common historical practice for the bonding master to be configured up prior to having any slaves, at which time the master will have a MAC address of all zeroes. Resolved by setting the dev->valida

[PATCH 1/2] bonding: fix rtnl locking merge error

2007-11-06 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Looks like I incorrectly merged one of the rtnl lock changes, so that one function, bonding_show_active_slave, held rtnl but didn't release it, and another, bonding_store_active_slave, never held rtnl but did release it. Fixed so the first function doesn't mess with rtnl, and the s

Re: bizarre network timing problem

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Rick Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Past performance is no guarantee of current correctness :) And over an Ethernet, there will be a very different set of both timings and TCP segment sizes compared to loopback. My guess is that you will find setting the lo m

Stack Trace. Bad?

2007-11-06 Thread Jon Nelson
[linux-raid was also emailed this same information] I was testing some network throughput today and ran into this. I should note that I've this motherboard has 2x MCP55 Ethernet and one of them works fine and the other one gives lots and lots of frame errors under load. The following is only an h

Stack Trace. Bad?

2007-11-06 Thread Jon Nelson
[linux-raid was also emailed this same information] I was testing some network throughput today and ran into this. I should note that I've this motherboard has 2x MCP55 Ethernet and one of them works fine and the other one gives lots and lots of frame errors under load. The following is only an h

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Radu Rendec wrote, On 11/06/2007 06:00 PM: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:43 -0500, jamal wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-06-11 at 15:25 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: >> >>> Yes, it saves one htonl() on the slow path! >> Would it feel better to say grew down exponentially from version 1 to >> 3? ;-> Sure, bu

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bridging eth0 to eth1 should not pay attention to VLAN tags > at all (if the pkt comes in on VLAN 7, it should go out on VLAN 7), > in my opinion. If the NIC is stripping the VLAN header, then this > cannot work unless something re-builds the VLAN header.

Please pull 'fixes-jgarzik' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-11-06 Thread John W. Linville
Jeff, Here are a few fixes for 2.6.24. The iwlwifi "is_power_of_2" patch is a little questionable as a fix. But it does bring the buildtime check in iwl_tx_queue_init in-line with the runtime check in iwl_queue_init, and it is 2x a one-liner -- so I think it is worthwhile. Thanks, John --- I

[PATCH] sky2: netpoll on port 0 only

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Netpoll will only work on port 0 because of the restrictive relationship between NAPI and netpoll. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c2007-11-06 09:09:18.0 -0800 +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c2007-11-06 11:42:48.0 -0800 @@ -3995,

Re: netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv4 does not show nf_nat as a user

2007-11-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 11/05/2007 07:12 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333481#c3 >> >> This is netfilter kernel problem. There is a usage count for the >> conntrack_ipv4 >> module from the nf_nat module, which is not reported by lsmod. >> > > This is

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Greear
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think there is one more case that matters, which is briding from a device with VLAN stripping for a VLAN not configured locally. The tag will be stripped and will be lost for forwarded packets. I think we should drop such p

Re: [PATCH] using mii-bitbang on different processor ports - update the booting-without-of.txt-file

2007-11-06 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:51:57AM +0100, Sergej Stepanov wrote: > The patch updates the booting-without-of.txt-file. > There is a description for the case > if mdio data and clock pins are on different processor ports. > It is a extending for e-mail "[PATCH v3] using mii-bitbang on different > pr

RE: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Dave Johnson
Ramkrishna Vepa writes: > Dave, > > If you can remove the patch for the s2io driver, we can submit a patch > that can dynamically program Xframe to strip or not strip the vlan tag > based on whether the vlan group is not NULL or NULL respectively. For > this, we have to modify the initialization a

RE: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Ramkrishna Vepa
Dave, If you can remove the patch for the s2io driver, we can submit a patch that can dynamically program Xframe to strip or not strip the vlan tag based on whether the vlan group is not NULL or NULL respectively. For this, we have to modify the initialization as well as the vlan registration. Wi

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

2007-11-06 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there is one more case that matters, which is briding > from a device with VLAN stripping for a VLAN not configured > locally. The tag will be stripped and will be lost for forwarded > packets. I think we should drop such packets on RX. Anyway

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Fixed memory leak by freeing MSI-X local entry memories when vector allocation fails

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Sreenivasa Honnur wrote: - Fixed memory leak by freeing MSI-X local entry memories when vector allocation fails in s2io_add_isr. - Added two utility functions remove_msix_isr and remove_inta_isr to eliminate code duplication. - Implemented following review comments from Jeff - Removed red

Re: Please pull 'upstream-jgarzik' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
John W. Linville wrote: Jeff, Here is a slew of patches targeted for 2.6.25. There are a bunch of rt2x00, iwl3945, iwl4965, b43, and b43legacy patches, as well as a few others. I'm sorry I didn't spread this out better -- I got a bit behind... :-( Thanks, John --- Individual patches are av

Re: [PATCH 1/7] sky2: enable PCI config writes

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
applied 1-7 - 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: [PATCH] add support for smc91x ethernet interface on zylonite

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
eric miao wrote: From 9363662844b6373ddf4265e7007eb29ff963a377 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eric miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:48:41 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] add support for smc91x ethernet interface on zylonite This patch adds LAN91C111 ethernet interface support for zylon

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-06 Thread Roel Kluin
Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Roel Kluin wrote: >> Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >>> Roel Kluin wrote: Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Roel Kluin wrote: >> Roel Kluin wrote: >>> I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any >>> previously >>> reported ones. It was a

[PATCH] Clean proto_(un)register from in-code ifdefs

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
The struct proto has the per-cpu "inuse" counter, which is handled with a special care. All the handling code hides under the ifdef CONFIG_SMP and it introduces some code duplication and makes it look worse than it could. Clean this. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff

Re: [PATCH] Fix e100 on systems that have cache incoherent DMA

2007-11-06 Thread Kok, Auke
David Acker wrote: > On the systems that have cache incoherent DMA, including ARM, there is a > race condition between software allocating a new receive buffer and hardware > writing into a buffer. The two race on touching the last Receive Frame > Descriptor (RFD). It has its el-bit set and its n

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread Radu Rendec
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:43 -0500, jamal wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-11 at 15:25 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > Yes, it saves one htonl() on the slow path! > > Would it feel better to say grew down exponentially from version 1 to > 3? ;-> Not only it saves one htonl(), but also keeps the code

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Roel Kluin wrote: > Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> Roel Kluin wrote: >>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote: Roel Kluin wrote: > Roel Kluin wrote: >> I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any >> previously >> reported ones. It was a recently pulled git kernel. Also

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-06 Thread Roel Kluin
Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Roel Kluin wrote: >> Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >>> Roel Kluin wrote: Roel Kluin wrote: > I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any > previously > reported ones. It was a recently pulled git kernel. Also I have been > hacking

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2007-06-11 at 15:25 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > Yes, it saves one htonl() on the slow path! Would it feel better to say grew down exponentially from version 1 to 3? ;-> > > Please give yourself a little pat on the back for me. > > Wait a minute! Don't forget to take a picture or som

[PATCH] PCMCIA NET: Use roundup_pow_of_two() macro instead of grotesque loop.

2007-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- i'm just going to assume that loop is rounding up to the next power of two, right? diff --git a/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c b/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c index db6a97d..07eae16 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c +++ b/driver

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:34:31AM -0500, jamal wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-11 at 10:09 +0200, Radu Rendec wrote: > > > Yup, you're right. Bitwise anding is the same regardless of the byte > > ordering of the operands. As long as you don't have one operand in host > > order and the other in net order

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2007-06-11 at 10:09 +0200, Radu Rendec wrote: > Yup, you're right. Bitwise anding is the same regardless of the byte > ordering of the operands. As long as you don't have one operand in host > order and the other in net order, it's ok. Ok > However, Jarek's computations with his mask and

Re: [PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of > interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info > hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own > schedule. It's just a trivial h

Re: [PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:23:50 +0300 > proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of > interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info > hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own > schedule. > > Si

Re: [PATCH -net 1/2] Convert /proc/net/ipv6_route to seq_file interface

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:21:50 +0300 > This removes last proc_net_create() user. Kudos to Benjamin Thery and > Stephen Hemminger for comments on previous version. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. - To unsubscribe from this

[PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own schedule. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedul

[PATCH -net 1/2] Convert /proc/net/ipv6_route to seq_file interface

2007-11-06 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
This removes last proc_net_create() user. Kudos to Benjamin Thery and Stephen Hemminger for comments on previous version. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 91 +-- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 62 d

Re: kernel panic removing devices from a teql queuing discipline

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:48:55 +0300 > Tested, works, fixed. > > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks a lot Evgeniy! I'll queue this up for -stable too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev"

Re: localhost network processing on smp machines

2007-11-06 Thread Andi Kleen
"Matthew Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm probably being stupid and very confused here. Appologies if it is > a stupid question. > > For a particular test I assign a client to core 1 and a server to core > 0. My first assumption was all the sending side kernel TCP/IP > processing will b

Re: kernel panic removing devices from a teql queuing discipline

2007-11-06 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:08:00PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:33:41AM -0700, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > The panic is in __teql_resolve (which has been inlined into > > > teql_master_xmit) in > > > net/sched/sch_teql.c at t

[PATCH] [NETFILTER] Consolidate nf_sockopt and compat_nf_sockopt v2

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Both lookup the nf_sockopt_ops object to call the get/set callbacks from, but they perform it in a completely similar way. Introduce the helper for finding the ops. Ported at the top of today's net-2.6 tree to resolve conflict with the patch from Alexey Dobriyan. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <

Re: Endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks

2007-11-06 Thread Radu Rendec
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 01:02 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > I meant that it didnt seem necessary to me you have to do the conversion > > back and forth of the hmask as you do in the u32_change(). The basis of > > the patch i posted - which is based on yours - is to remove that change. > > If that

[PATCH] using mii-bitbang on different processor ports - update the booting-without-of.txt-file

2007-11-06 Thread Sergej Stepanov
The patch updates the booting-without-of.txt-file. There is a description for the case if mdio data and clock pins are on different processor ports. It is a extending for e-mail "[PATCH v3] using mii-bitbang on different processor ports". Signed-off-by: Sergej Stepanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- dif

Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Roel Kluin wrote: > Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> Roel Kluin wrote: >>> Roel Kluin wrote: I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any previously reported ones. It was a recently pulled git kernel. Also I have been hacking my kernel a bit lately, but

Re: problems with ib-bonding of 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-06 Thread Moni Shoua
Same thing happens with Ethernet slave - Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) - 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