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Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Berg
a58ce43f2f mac80211: avoid spurious deauth frames/messages
With WEXT, it happens frequently that the SME
requests an authentication but then deauthenticates
right away because some new parameters came along.
Every time this happens we print a deauth message
and send a deauth frame, but both of that is rather
confusing. Avoid it by aborting the authentication
process silently, and telling cfg80211 about that.

The patch looks larger than it really is:
__cfg80211_auth_remove() is split out from
cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(), there's no new code
except __cfg80211_auth_canceled() (a one-liner) and
the mac80211 bits (7 new lines of code).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:09:02 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7351c6bd48 mac80211: request TX status where needed
Right now all frames mac80211 hands to the driver
have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set to
request TX status. This isn't really necessary, only
the injected frames need TX status (the latter for
hostapd) so move setting this flag.

The rate control algorithms also need TX status, but
they don't require it.

Also, rt2x00 uses that bit for its own purposes and
seems to require it being set for all frames, but
that can be fixed in rt2x00.

This doesn't really change anything for any drivers
but in the future drivers using hw-rate control may
opt to not report TX status for frames that don't
have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> [rt2x00 bits]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg
ad4bb6f888 cfg80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface
(in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it
doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11
networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such
need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't
help here. The wireless address format used for these
links has only space for three addresses, the
 * transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin)
 * receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in
   the case of managed mode
 * the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local
   network segment

In an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient
must match and the third address is used as the BSSID.

To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
wireless interface to a bridge.

Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg
9bc383de37 cfg80211: introduce capability for 4addr mode
It's very likely that not many devices will support
four-address mode in station or AP mode so introduce
capability bits for both modes, set them in mac80211
and check them when userspace tries to use the mode.
Also, keep track of 4addr in cfg80211 (wireless_dev)
and not in mac80211 any more. mac80211 can also be
improved for the VLAN case by not looking at the
4addr flag but maintaining the station pointer for
it correctly. However, keep track of use_4addr for
station mode in mac80211 to avoid all the derefs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5be83de54c cfg80211: convert bools into flags
We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys
which make more sense as flags as we keep adding
more. Convert the existing ones.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:50 -05:00
Rui Paulo
136cfa2861 mac80211: use a structure to hold the mesh config information element
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:27 -05:00
Marcel Holtmann
875405a779 rfkill: Add constant for RFKILL_TYPE_FM radio devices
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Janakiram Sistla <janakiram.sistla@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:26 -05:00
Marcel Holtmann
0878c3504f rfkill: Add missing description for RFKILL_TYPE_GPS
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Janakiram Sistla <janakiram.sistla@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
af65cd96dd mac80211: make software rate control optional
Some devices implement the entire rate control in
firmware in some way, like wl1271 or like iwlwifi
which does some things in software but not a lot.
Therefore generic software rate control is rather
useless for them and just adds avoidable overhead
to the transmit path.

It's fairly simple to let drivers indicate that
they do not need rate control, but they need to
fulfil a number of conditions that we encode in
WARN_ONs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:24 -05:00
David-John Willis
c95cf3d09a wl1251: add NVS in EEPROM support
wl1251 supports also that NVS is stored in a separate EEPROM, add support
for that.

kvalo: use platform data instead Kconfig and use kernel style

Signed-off-by: David-John Willis <John.Willis@Distant-earth.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c951ad3550 mac80211: convert aggregation to operate on vifs/stas
The entire aggregation code currently operates on the
hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to
change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step
preparing for that make the aggregation code callable
with the station, or by the combination of virtual
interface and station address.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:15 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
599bf6a4d6 mac80211: add the total ampdu length to tx info
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:10 -05:00
David S. Miller
dfef948ed2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-11-18 10:55:32 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
eeb74a9d45 Phonet: convert devices list to RCU
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 10:08:26 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
e014debecd linkwatch: linkwatch_forget_dev() to speedup device dismantle
Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:26:04AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> Really, the link watch stuff is just due for a redesign.  I don't
>> think a simple hack is going to cut it this time, sorry Eric :-)
>
> I have no objections against any redesigns, but since the only
> caller of linkwatch_forget_dev runs in process context with the
> RTNL, it could also legally emit those events.

Thanks guys, here an updated version then, before linkwatch surgery ?

In this version, I force the event to be sent synchronously.

[PATCH net-next-2.6] linkwatch: linkwatch_forget_dev() to speedup device dismantle

time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real	0m0.266s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s

real	0m0.770s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

real	0m1.022s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

One problem of current schem in vlan dismantle phase is the
holding of device done by following chain :

vlan_dev_stop() ->
	netif_carrier_off(dev) ->
		linkwatch_fire_event(dev) ->
			dev_hold() ...

And __linkwatch_run_queue() runs up to one second later...

A generic fix to this problem is to add a linkwatch_forget_dev() method
to unlink the device from the list of watched devices.

dev->link_watch_next becomes dev->link_watch_list (and use a bit more memory),
to be able to unlink device in O(1).

After patch :
time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real    0m0.024s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

real    0m0.032s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s

real    0m0.033s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 05:03:11 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
395264d509 net: introduce NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET
This new event is called once for each unique net namespace in batched
unregister operations (with the argument set to a random device from
that namespace) and once per device in non-batched unregister
operations.

It allows us to factorize some device unregister work such as clearing the
routing cache.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 05:03:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
d83345adf9 net: add dev_txq_stats_fold() helper
Some drivers ndo_get_stats() method need to perform txqueue stats folding.

Move folding from dev_get_stats() to a new dev_txq_stats_fold() function

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 23:51:52 -08:00
John W. Linville
c85e9d7739 znet: fix build failure from i82593.h relocation
znet was including "wireless/i82593.h" (which is a bit wierd), and I
missed that when I relocated i82593.h to drivers/staging/wavelan.  Since
I don't have ISA turned-on in my normal .config, I didn't see the build
failures -- mea culpa!

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-17 10:16:32 -05:00
David S. Miller
a2bfbc072e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/can/Kconfig
2009-11-17 00:05:02 -08:00
David S. Miller
e29d436317 Revert "isdn: isdn_ppp: Use SKB list facilities instead of home-grown implementation."
This reverts commit 38783e6713.

It causes kernel bugzilla #14594

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15 22:23:47 -08:00
Marin Mitov
b9f5d52670 remove deprecated and not used: print_mac()
The function print_mac in net/ethernet/eth.c is marked __deprecated
and not used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15 22:21:34 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski
9a1654ba0b net: Optimize hard_start_xmit() return checking
Recent changes in the TX error propagation require additional checking
and masking of values returned from hard_start_xmit(), mainly to
separate cases where skb was consumed. This aim can be simplified by
changing the order of NETDEV_TX and NET_XMIT codes, because the latter
are treated similarly to negative (ERRNO) values.

After this change much simpler dev_xmit_complete() is also used in
sch_direct_xmit(), so it is moved to netdevice.h.

Additionally NET_RX definitions in netdevice.h are moved up from
between TX codes to avoid confusion while reading the TX comment.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15 22:08:33 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
2c1409a0a2 inetpeer: Optimize inet_getid()
While investigating for network latencies, I found inet_getid() was a
contention point for some workloads, as inet_peer_idlock is shared
by all inet_getid() users regardless of peers.

One way to fix this is to make ip_id_count an atomic_t instead
of __u16, and use atomic_add_return().

In order to keep sizeof(struct inet_peer) = 64 on 64bit arches
tcp_ts_stamp is also converted to __u32 instead of "unsigned long".

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 20:46:58 -08:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu
5256f2ef3a inet: fix inet_bind_bucket_for_each
The first "node" is supposed to be the cursor used in the for_each.

The second "node" is ment literally and should not be macro expanded:
it's the name of the hlist_node field from the inet_bind_bucket.

This currently works because when inet_bind_bucket_for_each is called
it's argument is still "node".

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 20:46:56 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
ce81b76a39 ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices
No longer need read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.
We also can avoid taking references on inet6_dev structs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 20:38:49 -08:00
William Allen Simpson
bee7ca9ec0 net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED
Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space.

Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in
most cases.  Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581).

Replace numeric constants with defined symbols.

Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT.

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 20:38:48 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
409b95aff3 sctp: Set source addresses on the association before adding transports
Recent commit 8da645e101
	sctp: Get rid of an extra routing lookup when adding a transport
introduced a regression in the connection setup.  The behavior was

different between IPv4 and IPv6.  IPv4 case ended up working because the
route lookup routing returned a NULL route, which triggered another
route lookup later in the output patch that succeeded.  In the IPv6 case,
a valid route was returned for first call, but we could not find a valid
source address at the time since the source addresses were not set on the
association yet.  Thus resulted in a hung connection.

The solution is to set the source addresses on the association prior to
adding peers.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 19:56:50 -08:00
Holger Schurig
61fa713c75 cfg80211: return channel noise via survey API
This patch implements the NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY command and an get_survey()
ops that a driver can implement. The goal of this command is to allow a
drivers to report channel survey data (e.g. channel noise, channel
occupation).

For now, only the mechanism to report back channel noise has been
implemented.

In future, there will either be a survey-trigger command --- or the existing
scan-trigger command will be enhanced. This will allow user-space to
request survey for arbitrary channels.

Note: any driver that cannot report channel noise should not report
any value at all, e.g. made-up -92 dBm.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-13 17:43:58 -05:00
Rui Paulo
63c5723bc3 mac80211: add nl80211/cfg80211 handling of the new mesh root mode option.
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-13 17:43:57 -05:00
Rui Paulo
d19b3bf638 mac80211: replace "destination" with "target" to follow the spec
Resulting object files have the same MD5 as before.

Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-13 17:43:56 -05:00
Rui Paulo
90a5e16992 mac80211: implement RANN processing and forwarding
Process the RANN (Root Annoucement) Frame and try to find the HWMP
root station by sending a PREQ.

Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-13 17:43:54 -05:00
Patrick McHardy
572a9d7b6f net: allow to propagate errors through ->ndo_hard_start_xmit()
Currently the ->ndo_hard_start_xmit() callbacks are only permitted to return
one of the NETDEV_TX codes. This prevents any kind of error propagation for
virtual devices, like queue congestion of the underlying device in case of
layered devices, or unreachability in case of tunnels.

This patches changes the NET_XMIT codes to avoid clashes with the NETDEV_TX
codes and changes the two callers of dev_hard_start_xmit() to expect either
errno codes, NET_XMIT codes or NETDEV_TX codes as return value.

In case of qdisc_restart(), all non NETDEV_TX codes are mapped to NETDEV_TX_OK
since no error propagation is possible when using qdiscs. In case of
dev_queue_xmit(), the error is propagated upwards.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 14:07:32 -08:00
Felix Fietkau
8b787643ca nl80211: add a parameter for using 4-address frames on virtual interfaces
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 17:02:07 -05:00
Rui Paulo
3491707a07 mac80211: update meshconf IE
This updates the Mesh Configuration IE according to the latest
draft (3.03).
Notable changes include the simplified protocol IDs.

Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:56 -05:00
stephen hemminger
254245d233 netdev: add netdev_continue_rcu
This adds an RCU macro for continuing search, useful for some
network devices like vlan.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 22:26:29 -08:00
Ben Hutchings
37e8273cd3 usbnet: Set link down initially for drivers that update link state
Some usbnet drivers update link state while others do not due to
hardware limitations.  Add a flag to distinguish those that do, and
set the link down initially for their devices.

This is intended to fix this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/444043

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 20:54:40 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
30fff9231f udp: bind() optimisation
UDP bind() can be O(N^2) in some pathological cases.

Thanks to secondary hash tables, we can make it O(N)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 20:54:38 -08:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
6b0d07ba15 Phonet: put sockets in a hash table
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 20:54:33 -08:00
David S. Miller
f6d773cd4f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-11-09 11:17:24 -08:00
Yury Polyanskiy
9e0d57fd6d xfrm: SAD entries do not expire correctly after suspend-resume
This fixes the following bug in the current implementation of
net/xfrm: SAD entries timeouts do not count the time spent by the machine 
in the suspended state. This leads to the connectivity problems because 
after resuming local machine thinks that the SAD entry is still valid, while 
it has already been expired on the remote server.

  The cause of this is very simple: the timeouts in the net/xfrm are bound to 
the old mod_timer() timers. This patch reassigns them to the
CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimer.

  I have been using this version of the patch for a few months on my
machines without any problems. Also run a few stress tests w/o any
issues.

  This version of the patch uses tasklet_hrtimer by Peter Zijlstra
(commit 9ba5f0).

  This patch is against 2.6.31.4. Please CC me.

Signed-off-by: Yury Polyanskiy <polyanskiy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 20:58:41 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
7a50a240c4 net/compat_ioctl: support SIOCWANDEV
This adds compat_ioctl support for SIOCWANDEV, which has
always been missing.

The definition of struct compat_ifreq was missing an
ifru_settings fields that is needed to support SIOCWANDEV,
so add that and clean up the whitespace damage in the
struct definition.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 20:57:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
512615b6b8 udp: secondary hash on (local port, local address)
Extends udp_table to contain a secondary hash table.

socket anchor for this second hash is free, because UDP
doesnt use skc_bind_node : We define an union to hold
both skc_bind_node & a new hlist_nulls_node udp_portaddr_node

udp_lib_get_port() inserts sockets into second hash chain
(additional cost of one atomic op)

udp_lib_unhash() deletes socket from second hash chain
(additional cost of one atomic op)

Note : No spinlock lockdep annotation is needed, because
lock for the secondary hash chain is always get after
lock for primary hash chain.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 20:53:06 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
d4cada4ae1 udp: split sk_hash into two u16 hashes
Union sk_hash with two u16 hashes for udp (no extra memory taken)

One 16 bits hash on (local port) value (the previous udp 'hash')

One 16 bits hash on (local address, local port) values, initialized
but not yet used. This second hash is using jenkin hash for better
distribution.

Because the 'port' is xored later, a partial hash is performed
on local address + net_hash_mix(net)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 20:53:05 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
fdcc8aa953 udp: add a counter into udp_hslot
Adds a counter in udp_hslot to keep an accurate count
of sockets present in chain.

This will permit to upcoming UDP lookup algo to chose
the shortest chain when secondary hash is added.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 20:53:04 -08:00
Christian Pellegrin
e0000163e3 can: Driver for the Microchip MCP251x SPI CAN controllers
Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin <chripell@fsfe.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08 01:50:21 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
81adee47df net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.
There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
with a well known name.

We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
logic into rtnl_link_get_net.

In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
device source network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2009-11-08 00:53:51 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
b215c57dcc net: kill proto_ops wrapper
All users of wrapped proto_ops are now gone, so we can safely remove
the wrappers as well.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-07 00:46:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
b622d97a63 net: compat: No need to define IFHWADDRLEN and IFNAMSIZ twice.
It's defined colloqually in linux/if.h and linux/compat.h
includes that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 23:11:35 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
2dceba14ef compat: add struct compat_ifreq etc to compat.h
In order to move socket ioctl conversion code into multiple
places in the socket code, we need a common defintion of
the data structures it uses.

Also change the name from ifreq32 to compat_ifreq to
follow the naming convention for compat.h

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 20:43:57 -08:00
David S. Miller
10d626f4f4 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lowpan/lowpan 2009-11-06 17:57:51 -08:00