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* etherdevice: remove unused eth_addr_greaterVivien Didelot2017-03-121-15/+0
| | | | | | | | | eth_addr_greater() was introduced for the mv88e6xxx driver, but is not used anymore. There is no other user, thus remove this function. Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: add devm version of alloc_etherdev_mqs functionRafał Miłecki2017-01-291-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds devm_alloc_etherdev_mqs function and devm_alloc_etherdev macro. These can be used for simpler netdev allocation without having to care about calling free_netdev. Thanks to this change drivers, their error paths and removal paths may get simpler by a bit. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* dsa: mv88e6xxx: Optimise atu_getAndrew Lunn2017-01-041-0/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lookup in the ATU can be performed starting from a given MAC address. This is faster than starting with the first possible MAC address and iterating all entries. Entries are returned in numeric order. So if the MAC address returned is bigger than what we are searching for, we know it is not in the ATU. Using the benchmark provided by Volodymyr Bendiuga <volodymyr.bendiuga@gmail.com>, https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg411550.html on an Marvell Armada 370 RD, the test to add a number of static fdb entries went from 1.616531 seconds to 0.312052 seconds. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h & bridge: netfilter: Add and use ether_addr_equal_maskedJoe Perches2016-07-011-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There are code duplications of a masked ethernet address comparison here so make it a separate function instead. Miscellanea: o Neaten alignment of FWINV macro uses to make it clearer for the reader Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.David S. Miller2016-01-061-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the ethernet address for a given device. Currently this is done with a call to of_get_mac_address() and then some ifdef'd stuff for SPARC. Consolidate this into a portable routine, and provide the arch_get_platform_mac_address() weak function hook for all architectures to implement if they want. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: fix endian check warning in etherdevice.hJesse Brandeburg2015-08-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sparse builds have been warning for a really long time now that etherdevice.h has a conversion that is unsafe. include/linux/etherdevice.h:79:32: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer This code change fixes the issue and generates the exact same assembly before/after (checked on x86_64) Fixes: 2c722fe1c821 (etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functions) Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> CC: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdev: Fix sparse error, make test usable by other functionsAlexander Duyck2015-05-051-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change does two things. First it fixes a sparse error for the fact that the __be16 degrades to an integer. Since that is actually what I am kind of doing I am simply working around that by forcing both sides of the comparison to u16. Also I realized on some compilers I was generating another instruction for big endian systems such as PowerPC since it was masking the value before doing the comparison. So to resolve that I have simply pulled the mask out and wrapped it in an #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN. Lastly I pulled this all out into its own function. I notices there are similar checks in a number of other places so this function can be reused there to help reduce overhead in these paths as well. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdev: Process is_multicast_ether_addr at same size as other operationsAlexander Duyck2015-05-031-1/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | This change makes it so that we process the address in is_multicast_ether_addr at the same size as the other calls. This allows us to avoid duplicate reads when used with other calls such as is_zero_ether_addr or eth_addr_copy. In addition I have added a 64 bit version of the function so in eth_type_trans we can process the destination address as a 64 bit value throughout. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Kill dev_rebuild_headerEric W. Biederman2015-03-021-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Now that there are no more users kill dev_rebuild_header and all of it's implementations. This is long overdue. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add Transparent Ethernet Bridging GRO support.Jesse Gross2015-01-021-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | Currently the only tunnel protocol that supports GRO with encapsulated Ethernet is VXLAN. This pulls out the Ethernet code into a proper layer so that it can be used by other tunnel protocols such as GRE and Geneve. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add functions for handling padding frame and adding to lengthAlexander Duyck2014-12-081-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds two new helper functions skb_put_padto and eth_skb_pad. These functions deviate from the standard skb_pad or skb_padto in that they will also update the length and tail pointers so that they reflect the padding added to the frame. The eth_skb_pad helper is meant to be used with Ethernet devices to update either Rx or Tx frames so that they report the correct size. The skb_put_padto helper is meant to be used primarily in the transmit path for network devices that need frames to be padded up to some minimum size and don't wish to simply update the length somewhere external to the frame. The motivation behind this is that there are a number of implementations throughout the network device drivers that are all doing the same thing, but each a little bit differently and as a result several implementations contain bugs such as updating the length without updating the tail offset and other similar issues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add function for parsing the header length out of linear ethernet framesAlexander Duyck2014-09-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates some of the flow_dissector api so that it can be used to parse the length of ethernet buffers stored in fragments. Most of the changes needed were to __skb_get_poff as it needed to be updated to support sending a linear buffer instead of a skb. I have split __skb_get_poff into two functions, the first is skb_get_poff and it retains the functionality of the original __skb_get_poff. The other function is __skb_get_poff which now works much like __skb_flow_dissect in relation to skb_flow_dissect in that it provides the same functionality but works with just a data buffer and hlen instead of needing an skb. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: Use ether_addr_copy to copy an Ethernet addressJoe Perches2014-01-151-1/+23
| | | | | | | | | | Some systems can use the normally known u16 alignment of Ethernet addresses to save some code/text bytes and cycles. This does not change currently emitted code on x86 by gcc 4.8. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functionsJoe Perches2013-12-091-2/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set, several is_<foo>_ether_addr functions can be slightly improved by using u32 dereferences. I believe all current uses of is_zero_ether_addr and is_broadcast_ether_addr are u16 aligned, so always use u16 references to improve those functions performance. Document the u16 alignment requirements. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: Add ether_addr_equal_unalignedJoe Perches2013-12-091-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a generic routine to test if possibly unaligned to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal. If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set, this uses the slightly faster generic routine ether_addr_equal, otherwise this uses memcmp. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ether_addr_equal: Optimize implementation, remove unused compare_ether_addrJoe Perches2013-12-061-33/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new check for CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to reduce the number of or's used in the ether_addr_equal comparison to very slightly improve function performance. Simplify the ether_addr_equal_64bits implementation. Integrate and remove the zap_last_2bytes helper as it's now used only once. Remove the now unused compare_ether_addr function. Update the unaligned-memory-access documentation to remove the compare_ether_addr description and show how unaligned accesses could occur with ether_addr_equal. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [networking]device.h: Remove extern from function prototypesJoe Perches2013-09-261-19/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for function prototypes. Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
* net: etherdevice: add address inherit helperBjørn Mork2013-09-031-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | Some etherdevices inherit their address from a parent or master device. The addr_assign_type should be updated along with the address in these cases. Adding a helper function to simplify this. Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handlingStefan Hajnoczi2013-01-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow callers to implement error handling nicely. This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part, then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do the real commit if hardware address is set successfully. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: set dev->addr_assign_type correctlyJiri Pirko2013-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | Not a bitfield, but a plain value. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* eth: Rename and properly align br_reserved_address arrayBen Hutchings2012-11-021-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Since this array is no longer part of the bridge driver, it should have an 'eth' prefix not 'br'. We also assume that either it's 16-bit-aligned or the architecture has efficient unaligned access. Ensure the first of these is true by explicitly aligning it. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* eth: Make is_link_local() consistent with other address testsBen Hutchings2012-11-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Function name should include '_ether_addr'. Return type should be bool. Parameter name should be 'addr' not 'dest' (also matching kernel-doc). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net, ixgbe: handle link local multicast addresses in SR-IOV modeJohn Fastabend2012-10-291-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In SR-IOV mode the PF driver acts as the uplink port and is used to send control packets e.g. lldpad, stp, etc. eth0.1 eth0.2 eth0 VF VF PF | | | <-- stand-in for uplink | | | -------------------------- | Embedded Switch | -------------------------- | MAC <-- uplink But the embedded switch is setup to forward multicast addresses to all interfaces both VFs and PF and onto the physical link. This results in reserved MAC addresses used by control protocols to be forwarded over the switch onto the VF. In the LLDP case the PF sends an LLDPDU and it is currently being forwarded to all the VFs who then see the PF as a peer. This is incorrect. This patch adds the multicast addresses to the RAR table in the hardware to prevent this behavior. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* etherdevice: introduce help function eth_zero_addr()Duan Jiong2012-09-101-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | a lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy from a static array that contains the all-zeros Ethernet address. Introduce help function eth_zero_addr() to fill an address with all zeros, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of some constant arrays. Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <djduanjiong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: Rename random_ether_addr to eth_random_addrJoe Perches2012-07-161-6/+8
| | | | | | | | Add some API symmetry to eth_broadcast_addr and add a #define to the old name for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addrJohannes Berg2012-07-101-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast address. Introduce eth_broadcast_addr() to fill an address with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of some constant arrays. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: fix commentsstephen hemminger2012-05-171-8/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix some minor problems in comments of etherdevice.h * Warning is out dated, file hasn't moved or disappeared in many years and is unlikely to do so soon. * Capitalize Ethernet consistently since it is a proper name * Fix descriptive comment of padding * Spelling and grammar fix for alignment comment Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice: Remove now unused compare_ether_addr_64bitsJoe Perches2012-05-121-33/+13
| | | | | | | | | | Move and invert the logic from the otherwise unused compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bits. Neaten the logic in is_etherdev_addr. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal_64bitsJoe Perches2012-05-101-0/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add an optimized boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses are the same. This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr_64bits returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the compare_ether_addr_64bits function for sorting ala memcmp. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equalJoe Perches2012-05-091-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses are the same. This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the compare_ether_addr function for sorting ala memcmp. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdev.h: Convert int is_<foo>_ether_addr to boolJoe Perches2012-05-081-6/+6
| | | | | | | Make the return value explicitly true or false. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: compare_ether_addr[_64bits]() has no orderingJohannes Berg2012-05-071-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Neither compare_ether_addr() nor compare_ether_addr_64bits() (as it can fall back to the former) have comparison semantics like memcmp() where the sign of the return value indicates sort order. We had a bug in the wireless code due to a blind memcmp replacement because of this. A cursory look suggests that the wireless bug was the only one due to this semantic difference. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundant secondDanny Kukawka2012-02-131-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Renamed dev_hw_addr_random to eth_hw_addr_random() to reflect that this function only assign a random ethernet address (MAC). Removed the second parameter (u8 *hwaddr), it's redundant since the also given net_device already contains net_device->dev_addr. Set it directly. Adapt igbvf and ixgbevf to the changed function. Small fix for ixgbevf_probe(): if ixgbevf_sw_init() fails (which means the device got no dev_addr) handle the error and jump to err_sw_init as already done by igbvf in similar case. Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Push protocol type directly down to header_ops->cache()David S. Miller2011-07-131-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h: Add is_unicast_ether_addr functionTobias Klauser2011-01-131-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | From a check for !is_multicast_ether_addr it is not always obvious that we're checking for a unicast address. So add this helper function to make those code paths easier to read. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add alloc_netdev_mqs functionTom Herbert2011-01-101-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Added alloc_netdev_mqs function which allows the number of transmit and receive queues to be specified independenty. alloc_netdev_mq was changed to a macro to call the new function. Also added alloc_etherdev_mqs with same purpose. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: return operator cleanupEric Dumazet2010-09-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* gro: __napi_gro_receive() optimizationsEric Dumazet2010-08-261-1/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | compare_ether_header() can have a special implementation on 64 bit arches if CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is defined. __napi_gro_receive() and vlan_gro_common() can avoid a conditional branch to perform device match. On x86_64, __napi_gro_receive() has now 38 instructions instead of 53 As gcc-4.4.3 still choose to not inline it, add inline keyword to this performance critical function. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* etherdevice.h: fix kernel-doc typoRandy Dunlap2010-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Fix etherdevice.h parameter name typo in kernel-doc: Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): No description found for parameter 'hwaddr' Warning(include/linux/etherdevice.h:138): Excess function parameter 'addr' description in 'dev_hw_addr_random' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment typeStefan Assmann2010-07-241-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add addr_assign_type to struct net_device and expose it via sysfs. This new attribute has the purpose of giving user-space the ability to distinguish between different assignment types of MAC addresses. For example user-space can treat NICs with randomly generated MAC addresses differently than NICs that have permanent (locally assigned) MAC addresses. For the former udev could write a persistent net rule by matching the device path instead of the MAC address. There's also the case of devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices. In which it is also be beneficial for user-space to be aware of the fact. This patch also introduces a helper function to assist adoption of drivers that generate MAC addresses randomly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)Jiri Pirko2009-05-051-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v5 -> v6 (current): -removed so far unused static functions -corrected dev_addr_del_multiple to call del instead of add v4 -> v5: -added device address type (suggested by davem) -removed refcounting (better to have simplier code then safe potentially few bytes) v3 -> v4: -changed kzalloc to kmalloc in __hw_addr_add_ii() -ASSERT_RTNL() avoided in dev_addr_flush() and dev_addr_init() v2 -> v3: -removed unnecessary rcu read locking -moved dev_addr_flush() calling to ensure no null dereference of dev_addr v1 -> v2: -added forgotten ASSERT_RTNL to dev_addr_init and dev_addr_flush -removed unnecessary rcu_read locking in dev_addr_init -use compare_ether_addr_64bits instead of compare_ether_addr -use L1_CACHE_BYTES as size for allocating struct netdev_hw_addr -use call_rcu instead of rcu_synchronize -moved is_etherdev_addr into __KERNEL__ ifdef This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible, dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers sees no difference. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu2009-02-081-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() functionEric Dumazet2008-11-231-0/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all arches that have efficient unailgned accesses. I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits: 158: 33 82 38 01 00 00 xor 0x138(%edx),%eax 15e: 33 8a 34 01 00 00 xor 0x134(%edx),%ecx 164: c1 e0 10 shl $0x10,%eax 167: 09 c1 or %eax,%ecx 169: 74 0b je 176 <eth_type_trans+0x87> And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl) Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %, expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path. This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdev: expose ethernet address primitivesStephen Hemminger2008-11-191-0/+4
| | | | | | | | When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* docbook: make a networking book and fix a few errorsRandy Dunlap2008-02-131-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book. Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger2007-10-101-8/+12
| | | | | | | | | Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class not the device instance, make them into a separate object and save memory. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support APIPeter P Waskiewicz Jr2007-07-101-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network stack. Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at the netdev level if they choose to do so. Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().David S. Miller2007-07-101-6/+0
| | | | | | | | It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data() so just get rid of it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2007-05-071-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | Improve checking and diagnostics for broadcast and multicast Ethernet MAC addresses, and distinguish between those cases in output; also make sure the device is assigned a MAC address valid only locally to avoid collisions. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: Don't exclude broadcast addresses from is_multicast_ether_addr()Stephen Hemminger2006-01-031-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | The check for multicast shouldn't exclude broadcast type addresses. This reverts the incorrect change done in 2.6.13. The broadcast address is a multicast address and should be excluded from being a valid_ether_address for use in bridging or device address. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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