Ron Mercer [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:34 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
qlge: Move firmware event handler.
This is not a logical change but rather a move of the inbound firmware event
handler into it's own function as it will later be called by the outbound
path.
The addition of the mutex is to create exclusive access to the mailbox
commands between inbound and outbound handling.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds two new device ids to the asix driver.
One comes directly from the asix driver on their web site, the other was
reported by Armani Liao as needed for the MSI X320 to get the driver to
work properly for it.
Reported-by: Armani Liao <aliao@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ron Mercer [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:42:17 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
qlge: Use one path to (re)fill rx buffers.
Currently there are two paths for filling rx buffer queues. One is
used during initialization and the other during runtime. This patch
removes ql_alloc_sbq_buffers() and ql_alloc_lbq_buffers() and replaces
them with a call to the runtime functions ql_update_lbq() and
ql_update_sbq().
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ron Mercer [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:42:16 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
qlge: Optimize rx buffer refill process.
RX Buffers are refilled in chunks of 16 at a time before notifying the
hardware with a register write. This can cause several writes to take
place in a given napi poll call. This change causes the write to take place
only once at the end of the call.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of taking/giving the hw semaphore repeatedly when iterating over
several frame to queue route settings, we have the caller hold it until
all are done.
This reduces PCI bus chatter and possible waits.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ron Mercer [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:42:14 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
qlge: Increase MAC addr hw sem granularity.
Instead of taking/giving the semaphore repeatedly when iterating over
several adderesses, we have the caller hold it until all are done. This
reduces PCI bus chatter and possible waits.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ron Mercer [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:42:13 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
qlge: Clean up mac address and frame route settings.
Setting MAC addresses and routing frames to various queues will need to
be done in response to firmware events as well as during initialization.
This change encapsulates the facilities into a single call that can
later me made from other places.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:
If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.
This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.
This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mv643xx_eth: set sane default receive coalescing timeout
A receive coalescing timeout of 250 usec appears to strike a good
balance between allowing enough received frames to be aggregated for
LRO to do its job and not allowing the connection to stall due to
delaying ACKs to the remote end for too long.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mv643xx_eth: move a couple of init actions from ->open() to port probe
Move the netif_carrier_off() call in ->open() to port probe, so that
ethtool doesn't report the link as being up before we have up'd the
interface.
Move initialisation of the rx/tx coalescing timers from ->open() to
port probe, so that we don't reset the coalescing timers every time
the interface is up'd.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Brandeburg [Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:37:31 +0000 (16:37 -0800)]
ixbge: fix bug when using large pages and jumbo frames
it was pointed out on the list that ixgbe was failing when using 64kB pages
and large 16kB MTU.
since with a 64kB PAGE_SIZE MAX_SKB_FRAGS = 3, the way the driver was
configuring page usage was assuming 2kB is half a page, and was only
ever dmaing that much data to a half page.
(16kB - header size) / 2048 = 7 or 8 pages, which would far exceed 3
adjust the driver to account for these large pages, the hardware can
support DMA to up to 16kB for each descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Shannon Nelson [Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:36:38 +0000 (16:36 -0800)]
ixgbe: Move ring features into an enum, allowing easier future maintenance
From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
The ring_feature member of ixgbe_adapter is statically allocated based on
the supported features of the device. When a new feature is added, we need
to manually update the static allocation. This patch makes the feature
list an enum, eliminating the need for multiple updates to the code when
adding a new feature.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Josef Drexler [Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:53:12 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
netfilter: xt_recent: fix proc-file addition/removal of IPv4 addresses
Fix regression introduded by commit 079aa88 (netfilter: xt_recent: IPv6 support):
From http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12753:
Problem Description:
An uninitialized buffer causes IPv4 addresses added manually (via the +IP
command to the proc interface) to never match any packets. Similarly, the -IP
command fails to remove IPv4 addresses.
Details:
In the function recent_entry_lookup, the xt_recent module does comparisons of
the entire nf_inet_addr union value, both for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. For
addresses initialized from actual packets the remaining 12 bytes not occupied
by the IPv4 are zeroed so this works correctly. However when setting the
nf_inet_addr addr variable in the recent_mt_proc_write function, only the IPv4
bytes are initialized and the remaining 12 bytes contain garbage.
Hence addresses added in this way never match any packets, unless these
uninitialized 12 bytes happened to be zero by coincidence. Similarly, addresses
cannot consistently be removed using the proc interface due to mismatch of the
garbage bytes (although it will sometimes work to remove an address that was
added manually).
Reading the /proc/net/xt_recent/ entries hides this problem because this only
uses the first 4 bytes when displaying IPv4 addresses.
Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode
The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter
proc option. Recent changes added a loose mode.
Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to
the document describing it:
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away
from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Dhananjay Phadke [Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:42:59 +0000 (03:42 -0800)]
netxen: fix physical port mapping
The PCI function to physical port mapping is valid only for
old firmware. New firmware (4.0.0+) abstracts this.
So driver should never try to access phy using invalid
mapping. The behavior is unpredictable when PCI functions
4-7 are enabled on the same NIC.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak
netns: build fix for net_alloc_generic
proc: proc_get_inode should de_put when inode already initialized
de_get is called before every proc_get_inode, but corresponding de_put is
called only when dropping last reference to an inode. This might cause
something like
remove_proc_entry: /proc/stats busy, count=14496
to be printed to the syslog.
The fix is to call de_put in case of an already initialized inode in
proc_get_inode.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Sachanowicz <analyzer1@gmail.com> Tested-by: Marcin Pilipczuk <marcin.pilipczuk@gmail.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jesse Barnes [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:41:09 +0000 (15:41 -0800)]
i915: suspend/resume interrupt state
In the KMS case, enter/leavevt won't fix up the interrupt handler for
us, so we need to do it at suspend/resume time. Make sure we don't fail
the resume if the chip is hung either.
Eugene Teo [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:41 +0000 (15:38 -0800)]
net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak
The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
leak the padded bytes to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
netns: fix double free at netns creation
veth : add the set_mac_address capability
sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring
sungem: another error printed one too early
ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning
SMSC: timeout reaches -1
smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom
sundance: missing parentheses?
smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout
wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3
vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag().
cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35.
tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
TG3: &&/|| confusion
ATM: misplaced parentheses?
net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly
net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic
atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver
net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
Larry Finger [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:31:12 +0000 (14:31 -0600)]
rtl8187: New USB ID's for RTL8187L
Add new USB ID codes. These come from two postings on forums and
mailing lists, and four are derived from the .inf that accompanies
the latest Realtek Windows driver for the RTL8187L.
Thanks to Viktor Ilijašić <viktor.ilijasic@gmail.com> and Xose Vazquez
Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> for reporting these new ID's.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Without DEBUG_NOTIFIERS it most likely crashes on NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Acked-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.
Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.
Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network
devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup. There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.
The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.
It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys. Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.
Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
snap: handle registration error and compile warning
If this module can't load, it is almost certainly because something else
is already bound to that SAP. So in that case, return the same error code
as other SAP usage, and fail the module load.
Also fixes a compiler warning about printk of non const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:26:09 +0000 (16:26 -0800)]
Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/i915: Add missing mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex)
drm/i915: fix WC mapping in non-GEM i915 code.
drm/i915: Fix regression in 95ca9d
drm/i915: Retire requests from i915_gem_busy_ioctl.
drm/i915: suspend/resume GEM when KMS is active
drm/i915: Don't let a device flush to prepare buffers clear new write_domains.
drm/i915: Cut two args to set_to_gpu_domain that confused this tricky path.
Eric Anholt [Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:44:56 +0000 (09:44 -0800)]
drm/i915: Retire requests from i915_gem_busy_ioctl.
This ensures that the user gets the latest information from the hardware
on whether the buffer is busy, potentially reducing the working set of objects
that the user chooses.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Jesse Barnes [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:13:31 +0000 (15:13 -0800)]
drm/i915: suspend/resume GEM when KMS is active
In the KMS case, we need to suspend/resume GEM as well. So on suspend, make
sure we idle GEM and stop any new rendering from coming in, and on resume,
re-init the framebuffer and clear the suspended flag.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Eric Anholt [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:54:51 +0000 (14:54 -0800)]
drm/i915: Don't let a device flush to prepare buffers clear new write_domains.
The problem was that object_set_to_gpu_domain would set the new write_domains
that are getting set by this batchbuffer, then the accumulated flushes required
for all the objects in preparation for this batchbuffer were posted, and the
brand new write domain would get cleared by the flush being posted. Instead,
hang on to the new (or old if we're not changing it) value and set it after
the flush is queued.
Results from this noticably included conformance test failures from reads
shortly after writes (where the new write domain had been lost and thus not
flushed and waited on), but is a suspected cause of hangs in some apps when
a write domain is lost on a buffer that gets reused for instruction or
commmand state.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Paul Moore [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:33:02 +0000 (16:33 -0500)]
selinux: Fix the NetLabel glue code for setsockopt()
At some point we (okay, I) managed to break the ability for users to use the
setsockopt() syscall to set IPv4 options when NetLabel was not active on the
socket in question. The problem was noticed by someone trying to use the
"-R" (record route) option of ping:
# ping -R 10.0.0.1
ping: record route: No message of desired type
The solution is relatively simple, we catch the unlabeled socket case and
clear the error code, allowing the operation to succeed. Please note that we
still deny users the ability to override IPv4 options on socket's which have
NetLabel labeling active; this is done to ensure the labeling remains intact.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Paul Moore [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:32:55 +0000 (16:32 -0500)]
cipso: Fix documentation comment
The CIPSO protocol engine incorrectly stated that the FIPS-188 specification
could be found in the kernel's Documentation directory. This patch corrects
that by removing the comment and directing users to the FIPS-188 documented
hosted online. For the sake of completeness I've also included a link to the
CIPSO draft specification on the NetLabel website.
Thanks to Randy Dunlap for spotting the error and letting me know.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:26:30 +0000 (13:26 -0800)]
Merge branch 'core/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up], fix
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:15:45 +0000 (12:15 -0800)]
docbook: split kernel-api for device-drivers
The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others,
so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in
some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.)
and device drivers/device subsystems. This allows these docbooks
to be generated in parallel. (This reduced the docbook processing
time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to
about 2min:01sec.)
The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are:
Driver Basics
Device drivers infrastructure
Parallel Port Devices
Message-based devices
Sound Devices
16x50 UART Driver
Frame Buffer Library
Input Subsystem
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
I2C and SMBus Subsystem
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up]
Move the sysdev_suspend/resume from the callee to the callers, with
no real change in semantics, so that we can rework the disabling of
interrupts during suspend/hibernation.
This is based on an earlier patch from Linus.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:27:49 +0000 (10:27 -0800)]
x86: Add IRQF_TIMER to legacy x86 timer interrupt descriptors
Right now nobody cares, but the suspend/resume code will eventually want
to suspend device interrupts without suspending the timer, and will
depend on this flag to know.
The modern x86 timer infrastructure uses the local APIC timers and never
shows up as a device interrupt at all, so it isn't affected and doesn't
need any of this.
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:28:46 +0000 (09:28 -0800)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM
fujitsu-laptop: Use RFKILL support bitmask from firmware
x86_64: Fix S3 fail path
x86_64: acpi/wakeup_64 cleanup
battery: don't assume we are fully charged when not charging or discharging
ACPI: EC: Add delay for slow MSI controller
Daniel Lezcano [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:07:53 +0000 (00:07 -0800)]
netns: fix double free at netns creation
This patch fix a double free when a network namespace fails.
The previous code does a kfree of the net_generic structure when
one of the init subsystem initialization fails.
The 'setup_net' function does kfree(ng) and returns an error.
The caller, 'copy_net_ns', call net_free on error, and this one
calls kfree(net->gen), making this pointer freed twice.
This patch make the code symetric, the net_alloc does the net_generic
allocation and the net_free frees the net_generic.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (23:52 -0800)]
tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt
Our TCP stack does not set the urgent flag if the urgent pointer
does not fit in 16 bits, i.e., if it is more than 64K from the
sequence number of a packet.
This behaviour is different from the BSDs, and clearly contradicts
the purpose of urgent mode, which is to send the notification
(though not necessarily the associated data) as soon as possible.
Our current behaviour may in fact delay the urgent notification
indefinitely if the receiver window does not open up.
Simply matching BSD however may break legacy applications which
incorrectly rely on the out-of-band delivery of urgent data, and
conversely the in-band delivery of non-urgent data.
Alexey Kuznetsov suggested a safe solution of following BSD only
if the urgent pointer itself has not yet been transmitted. This
way we guarantee that when the remote end sees the packet with
non-urgent data marked as urgent due to wrap-around we would have
advanced the urgent pointer beyond, either to the actual urgent
data or to an as-yet untransmitted packet.
The only potential downside is that applications on the remote
end may see multiple SIGURG notifications. However, this would
occur anyway with other TCP stacks. More importantly, the outcome
of such a duplicate notification is likely to be harmless since
the signal itself does not carry any information other than the
fact that we're in urgent mode.
Thanks to Ilpo Järvinen for fixing a critical bug in this and
Jeff Chua for reporting that bug.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Russell King [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:41:57 +0000 (23:41 -0800)]
etherh: Get working again.
Further to a71558d, this is round five of fixes to make etherh work
again. As mainline kernels stand, the fixes in b9a9b4b were the wrong
approach.
The 8390 driver was structured by Al Viro to allow the flexibility required
by platforms. lib8390.c contains the core code which drivers explicitly
include:
- 8390.c includes lib8390.c to provide the standard ISA based driver.
- etherh.c includes it with the accessors defined for RiscPC platforms,
where it is addressed via the MMIO accessors with a device dependent
register spacing.
Other platform drivers do something similar.
However, b9a9b4b caused the kernel to contain not only the etherh private
build of lib8390 (included in etherh.c) but also lib8390.c itself, and
referred the new net_device_ops methods to the ISA version. The result
of this is is not pretty:
projects / linux-beck.git / log