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2010-10-05ixgbevf.txt: Update ixgbevf documentationJeff Kirsher
Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual function driver). Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-11Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt: deleted, not in treeJoe Perches
Commit 1d794e3b353b ("Staging: wavelan: delete the driver") removed the source, so remove the documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (59 commits) igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation igb.txt: Add igb documentation e100/e1000*/igb*/ixgb*: Add missing read memory barrier ixgbe: fix build error with FCOE_CONFIG without DCB_CONFIG netxen: protect tx timeout recovery by rtnl lock isdn: gigaset: use after free isdn: gigaset: add missing unlock solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops net: disable preemption before call smp_processor_id() tcp: no md5sig option size check bug iwlwifi: fix locking assertions iwlwifi: fix TX tracer isdn: fix information leak net: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path usbnet: remove noisy and hardly useful printk rtl8180: avoid potential NULL deref in rtl8180_beacon_work ath9k: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS list libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates ...
2010-08-08igbvf.txt: Add igbvf DocumentationJeff Kirsher
Adds documentation for the igbvf (igb virtual function driver). v2: - Removed trailing white space - Removed Ethtool version info Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-08igb.txt: Add igb documentationJeff Kirsher
Add documentation for the igb networking driver. v2: - Removed trailing white space - Removed Ethtool version info - Removed LRO kernel version info Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-06DNS: Fixes for the DNS query moduleDavid Howells
Fixes for the DNS query module, including: (1) Use 'negative' instead of '-ve' in the documentation. (2) Mark the kdoc comment with '/**' on dns_query(). Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-05DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver codeWang Lei
Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS filesystem module. This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys can be retained in keyrings. Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive description that is of the form "[<type>:]<domain_name>". The optional <type> indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The <domain_name> is the query to be made. If <type> isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution. The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function, which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This part remains in the CIFS module for now. See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: update broken web addresses. fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen" hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26 drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE comment typo fixes: charater => character fix comment typos concerning "challenge" arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc reiserfs: typo comment fix update email address ...
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-06-29caif-driver: Add CAIF-SPI Protocol driver.Sjur Braendeland
This patch introduces the CAIF SPI Protocol Driver for CAIF Link Layer. This driver implements a platform driver to accommodate for a platform specific SPI device. A general platform driver is not possible as there are no SPI Slave side Kernel API defined. A sample CAIF SPI Platform device can be found in .../Documentation/networking/caif/spi_porting.txt Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2010-06-16ipw2200: Enable LED by defaultubuntu@tjworld.net
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21367 Enable LED by default and update the MODULE_PARM_DESC. The original reason for defaulting to disabled was documented in 2005 and noted, "The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default." This no longer appears applicable and users have been requesting this be enabled for several years. Signed-off-by: TJ <ubuntu@tjworld.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-11pktgen: increasing transmission granularityDaniel Turull
This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen. The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay). Now any rate is possible. Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second. The documentation has been updated. Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-05bonding: allow user-controlled output slave selectionAndy Gospodarek
v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver. This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for round-robin and active-backup bonding. Similar functionality was discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a completely new mode. Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks. Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when considering a multi-switch environment. Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting the 'all_slaves_active' flag. This will allow reception of unicast traffic on any of the backup interfaces. This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters with good results. More information as well as a configuration example is available in the patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02packet_mmap: expose hw packet timestamps to network packet capture utilitiesScott McMillan
This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by packet_mmap. PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set. If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was added). Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-31arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option ↵Ian Campbell
is enabled This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation currently suggests. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits) qlcnic: adding co maintainer ixgbe: add support for active DA cables ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address ipv6: Use POSTDAD state ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown. cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops. can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards ... Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/ {pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal (Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt). Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-05-15net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbersAmerigo Wang
(Dropped the infiniband part, because Tetsuo modified the related code, I will send a separate patch for it once this is accepted.) This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications. The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-23Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriateFrancis Galiegue
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant. Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-22X25: Update X25 interface documentationandrew hendry
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-07net: corrected documentation for hardware time stampingPatrick Loschmidt
The current documentation for hardware time stamping does not correctly specify the available kernel functions since the implementation was changed later on. Signed-off-by: Patrick Loschmidt <Patrick.Loschmidt@oeaw.ac.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c drivers/net/via-velocity.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
2010-04-03l2tp: Update documentationJames Chapman
This patch adds documentation about the L2TPv3 functionality. Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01stmmac: add documentation for the driver.Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Add Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt for the stmmac network driver. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30net-caif: add CAIF documentationSjur Braendeland
Documentation of the CAIF Protocol. Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-15Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2010-03-15timestamping: fix example buildRandy Dunlap
Fix Makefiles so that Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c will build when using the CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC kconfig option. (timestamping.c does not build currently with its simple Makefile.) Also fix printf format warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-08Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina
Conflicts: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (220 commits) USB: backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration failure handling USB: pl2303: remove unnecessary reset of usb_device in urbs USB: ftdi_sio: remove obsolete check in unthrottle USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused tx_bytes counter USB: qcaux: driver for auxiliary serial ports on Qualcomm devices USB: pl2303: initial TIOCGSERIAL support USB: option: add Longcheer/Longsung vendor ID USB: fix I2C API usage in ohci-pnx4008. USB: usbmon: mask seconds properly in text API USB: sisusbvga: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC USB: storage: onetouch: unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id USB: remove references to port->port.count from the serial drivers USB: tty: Prune uses of tty_request_room in the USB layer USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag USB: don't read past config->interface[] if usb_control_msg() fails in usb_reset_configuration() USB: tty: kill request_room for USB ACM class USB: tty: sort out the request_room handling for whiteheat USB: storage: fix misplaced parenthesis USB: vstusb.c: removal of driver for Vernier Software & Technology, Inc., devices and spectrometers ...
2010-03-02USB: cxacru: remove cxacru-cf.bin loaderSimon Arlott
This has never worked properly because wsize passed to cxacru_cm() is incorrectly set to the number of values instead of the data bytes. The maximum number of values that can be set at once is 7 which means the device will not get enough data to work with and none of the configuration values will be used. At least one existing cxacru-cf.bin file contains invalid data which will prevent the modem from syncing properly. Fixing it is likely to break existing systems, and the new sysfs interface for setting configuration parameters can provide the same functionality. A script is provided to convert from the original format. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-02USB: cxacru: add write-only sysfs attribute for modem configurationSimon Arlott
The modem can be configured using CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_SET, although CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_GET does not return any data. Tested by setting the modulation (0x0a) option. There is a list of parameters in the following archive, but the meaning of many of them is not well documented: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=301825 This source also indicates that the highest parameter set is 0x4a but this varies by model so an arbitrary limit of 0x7f has been used (the index is a 32-bit integer). Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-02USB: cxacru: return an empty value for modulation if there is no connectionSimon Arlott
When there is no connection, return an empty string instead of "0" for the connection modulation. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-02-23IPv6: better document max_addresses parameterBrian Haley
Andrew Morton wrote: >> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description >> for max_addresses: >> max_addresses - INTEGER >> Number of maximum addresses per interface. 0 disables limitation. >> It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would >> be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of >> autoconfigured addresses. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state >> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to >> auto-configuration. It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious. More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin dupackAndreas Petlund
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin linear timeoutsAndreas Petlund
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin-stream detectionAndreas Petlund
Inline function to dynamically detect thin streams based on the number of packets in flight. Used to dynamically trigger thin-stream mechanisms if enabled by ioctl or sysctl. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-12dccp: allow probing of CCID-array lengthGerrit Renker
This fixes a problem in the DCCP getsockopt() API: currently there is no way for a user to a priori know the number of built-in CCIDs, other than trying DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS in a loop, incrementing the option length until EINVAL is no longer returned. This patch truncates the array to the user-provided length. No copy is made when the length is <= 0. Due to the length restriction in do_dccp_getsockopt() to sizeof(int), the minimum array length remains 4, which is a reasonable default (only 3 CCIDs, CCID-2..4, are currently defined). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-09tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixesDaniel Mack
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success', 'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address', 'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05packet: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP.David S. Miller
Early on this was an experimental facility that few people other than Alexey Kuznetsov played with. Now it's a pretty fundamental thing and as people add more features to AF_PACKET sockets this config options creates ifdef spaghetti. So kill it off. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04doc: fix checking socket() in net tstamp exampleAli Gholami Rudi
Signed-off-by: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir> Acked-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-01-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-01-19ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARPOctavian Purdila
If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP. Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for the first packet of a stream. This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-11Documentation/3c509: document ethtool supportBen Hutchings
3c509 was changed to support ethtool in 2002, making the 'xcvr' module parameter obsolete in most cases. More recently 3c509 was converted to the modern driver model and this parameter was removed. Fix the documentation to refer to ethtool rather than the module parameter. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-10ixgbevf: Kconfig, Makefile and DocumentationGreg Rose
Modifications for the Kconfig and network device Makefile to add the ixgbevf driver module to the kernel plus basic driver documentation. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp supportJesper Dangaard Brouer
This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069, that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing. This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received). Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan": /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan This switch technology is known by different vendor names: - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-21wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory databaseJohn W. Linville
This patch provides infrastructure for machine translation of the regulatory rules database used by CRDA into a C data structure. It includes code for searching that database as an alternative to dynamic regulatory rules updates via CRDA. Most people should use CRDA instead of this infrastructure, but it provides a better alternative than the WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY infrastructure (which can now be removed). Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-03ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addressesPatrick McHardy
commit 8ec1e0ebe26087bfc5c0394ada5feb5758014fc8 Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Date: Thu Dec 3 12:16:35 2009 +0100 ipv4: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses Change fib_validate_source() to accept packets with a local source address when the "accept_local" sysctl is set for the incoming inet device. Combined with the previous patches, this allows to communicate between multiple local interfaces over the wire. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONSWilliam Allen Simpson
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option. Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities. Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h, near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes). This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>