Paul Bolle wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9923 would have been much easier to
> track down if eth_validate_addr() would somehow complain aloud if an address
> is invalid. Shouldn't it make at least some noise?
I guess it should return -EADDRNOTAVAIL similar to eth_mac_addr()
when validation fails.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardyauthored and David S. Millercommited 2008-04-13 22:45:40 -07:00
print_mac() used many most net drivers and format_addr() used by
net-sysfs.c are very similar and they can be intergrated.
format_addr() is also identically redefined in the qla4xxx iscsi
driver.
Export a new function sysfs_format_mac() to be used by net-sysfs,
qla4xxx and others in the future. Both print_mac() and
sysfs_format_mac() call _format_mac_addr() to do the formatting.
Changed print_mac() to use unsigned char * to be consistent with
net_device struct's dev_addr. Added buffer length overrun checking
as suggested by Joe Perches.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Chanauthored and David S. Millercommited 2008-01-28 15:00:05 -08:00
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>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of
header_ops conversion.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-10-10 16:52:51 -07:00
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
The ethernet header management only needs to handle a fixed
size address (6 bytes). If the memcpy/memset are changed to
be passed a constant length, then compiler can optimize for
this case (and if it is smart eliminate string instructions).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-10-10 16:48:26 -07:00
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>
Peter P Waskiewicz Jrauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-07-10 22:16:21 -07:00
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.
This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Meloauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Meloauthored and David S. Millercommited 2007-04-25 22:24:30 -07:00
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Schmielauauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Run ethernet support through Lindent and fix up.
Applies after docbook comments patch
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-09-22 14:55:09 -07:00
Add docbook style comments to ethernet support.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-09-22 14:55:08 -07:00
The /proc/sys/net/ethernet directory has been sitting empty for more than
10 years! Time to eliminate it!
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jes Sorensenauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-06-05 15:34:11 -07:00
When you turn off ARP on a netdevice then the first packet always goes
out with a dstMAC of all zeroes. This is because the first packet is
used to resolve ARP entries. Even though the ARP entry may be resolved
(I tried by setting a static ARP entry for a host i was pinging from),
it gets overwritten by virtue of having the netdevice disabling ARP.
Subsequent packets go out fine with correct dstMAC address (which may
be why people have ignored reporting this issue).
To cut the story short:
the culprit code is in net/ethernet/eth.c::eth_header()
----
/*
* Anyway, the loopback-device should never use this
function...
*/
if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_NOARP))
{
memset(eth->h_dest, 0, dev->addr_len);
return ETH_HLEN;
}
if(daddr)
{
memcpy(eth->h_dest,daddr,dev->addr_len);
return ETH_HLEN;
}
----
Note how the h_dest is being reset when device has IFF_NOARP.
As a note:
All devices including loopback pass a daddr. loopback in fact passes
a 0 all the time ;->
This means i can delete the check totaly or i can remove the IFF_NOARP
Alexey says:
--------------------
I think, it was me who did this crap. It was so long ago I do not remember
why it was made.
I remember some troubles with dummy device. It tried to resolve
addresses, apparently, without success and generated errors instead of
blackholing. I think the problem was eventually solved at neighbour
level.
After some thinking I suspect the deletion of this chunk could change
behaviour of some parts which do not use neighbour cache f.e. packet
socket.
I think safer approach would be to move this chunk after if (daddr).
And the possibility to remove this completely could be analyzed later.
--------------------
Patch updated with Alexey's safer suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jamal Hadi Salimauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-02-23 16:18:01 -08:00
This uses is_multicast_ether_addr() because it has recently been
changed to do the same thing these seperate tests are doing.
Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Kris Katterjohnauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-01-06 13:05:58 -08:00
These patches add the header linux/if_ether.h and change 1500 to
ETH_DATA_LEN in some files.
Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Kris Katterjohnauthored and David S. Millercommited 2006-01-05 16:48:56 -08:00
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
This is the net/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in net/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhlauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-11-08 09:41:34 -08:00
Expose faster ether compare for use by protocols and other
driver. And change name to be more consistent with other ether
address manipulation routines in same file
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Stephen Hemmingerauthored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melocommited 2005-10-29 02:23:58 -02:00
We know the thing is at least 2-byte aligned, so take
advantage of that instead of invoking memcmp() which
results in truly horrifically inefficient code because
it can't assume anything about alignment.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Millercommited 2005-09-27 16:03:05 -07:00
Of this type, mostly:
CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Meloauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-08-29 16:01:32 -07:00
Instead, set it in one place, namely the beginning of
netif_receive_skb().
Based upon suggestions from Jamal Hadi Salim.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Millercommited 2005-08-29 15:33:26 -07:00
tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexey Dobriyanauthored and David S. Millercommited 2005-07-12 12:08:43 -07:00
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhlauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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