Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing
and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a
userspace interface exported via configfs. Documentation is also updated
accordingly.
Issues and brief design overview:
(1) Kernel-initiated creation / destruction of kernel objects is not
possible with configfs -- the lifetimes of the "config items" is managed
exclusively from userspace. But netconsole must support boot/module
params too, and these are parsed in kernel and hence netpolls must be
setup from the kernel. Joel Becker suggested to separately manage the
lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects -- those created
via configfs mkdir(2) from userspace and those specified from the
boot/module option string. This adds complexity and some redundancy here
and also means that boot/module param-created targets are not exposed
through the configfs namespace (and hence cannot be updated / destroyed
dynamically). However, this saves us from locking / refcounting
complexities that would need to be introduced in configfs to support
kernel-initiated item creation / destroy there.
(2) In configfs, item creation takes place in the call chain of the
mkdir(2) syscall in the driver subsystem. If we used an ioctl(2) to
create / destroy objects from userspace, the special userspace program is
able to fill out the structure to be passed into the ioctl and hence
specify attributes such as local interface that are required at the time
we set up the netpoll. For configfs, this information is not available at
the time of mkdir(2). So, we keep all newly-created targets (via
configfs) disabled by default. The user is expected to set various
attributes appropriately (including the local network interface if
required) and then write(2) "1" to the "enabled" attribute. Thus,
netpoll_setup() is then called on the set parameters in the context of
_this_ write(2) on the "enabled" attribute itself. This design enables
the user to reconfigure existing netconsole targets at runtime to be
attached to newly-come-up interfaces that may not have existed when
netconsole was loaded or when the targets were actually created. All this
effectively enables us to get rid of custom ioctls.
(3) Ultra-paranoid configfs attribute show() and store() operations, with
sanity and input range checking, using only safe string primitives, and
compliant with the recommendations in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt.
(4) A new function netpoll_print_options() is created in the netpoll API,
that just prints out the configured parameters for a netpoll structure.
netpoll_parse_options() is modified to use that and it is also exported to
be used from netconsole.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
devices interconnected with each other.
Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but
it can be used as is as well.
The newlink callback is organized that way to make it easy to
create the peer device in the separate namespace when we have
them in kernel.
This implementation uses another interface - the RTM_NRELINK
message introduced by Patric.
Bug fixes from Daniel Lezcano.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This reverts commit e1abecc489.
The driver works on some hardware that skge doesn't handle yet.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
PPPOL2TP uses UDP so it obviously depends on CONFIG_INET.
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Enabling drivers from "Devices > Networking" (in menuconfig), for
example SLIP and/or PLIP, throws link time errors when CONFIG_NET itself
is =n. Have CONFIG_NETDEVICES depend on CONFIG_NET.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices
Blackfin processor's on-chip ethernet MAC controller.
[try#2]
- add timeout control
- kill dma_config_reg bitfields
- some trivial cleanup
[try#3]
- add endianess check
- add DRV_NAME, DRV_VERSION... driver information string
- add some comments for silicon anomaly and dma API confusion
- some code trivial cleanup
[try#4]
- add Blackfin latest GPIO pin mux opertion with Michael Hennerich's
help and Dan's review
- rewrite the DMA descriptor list operation in a more readable way
by Joe's review
[try#5]
- cleanup some coding style by Joe's review.
[try#6]
- 1.1 version fix a bug when set up multicast list pointed by Mr. yoshfuji
- rearrange the desc_list_free function.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to access network
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
network device driver.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Cc: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Convert the macb driver to use the generic PHY layer in
drivers/net/phy.
Signed-off-by: Frederic RODO <f.rodo@til-technologies.fr>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
more ACSI removal
umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI
removal.
It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by
commit c2bcf3b897:
config ATARI_SLM
tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support"
- depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n
+ depends on ATARI
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices
based on MAC address.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
This driver handles only L2TP data frames; control frames are handled
by a userspace application. It implements L2TP using the PPPoX socket
family. There is a PPPoX socket for each L2TP session in an L2TP
tunnel. PPP data within each session is passed through the kernel's
PPP subsystem via this driver. Kernel parameters of each socket can be
read or modified using ioctl() or [gs]etsockopt() calls.
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (40 commits)
bonding/bond_main.c: make 2 functions static
ps3: gigabit ethernet driver for PS3, take3
[netdrvr] Fix dependencies for ax88796 ne2k clone driver
eHEA: Capability flag for DLPAR support
Remove sk98lin ethernet driver.
sunhme.c:quattro_pci_find() must be __devinit
bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master
atl1: remove write-only var in tx handler
macmace: use "unsigned long flags;"
Cleanup usbnet_probe() return value handling
netxen: deinline and sparse fix
eeprom_93cx6: shorten pulse timing to match spec (bis)
phylib: Add Marvell 88E1112 phy id
phylib: cleanup marvell.c a bit
AX88796 network driver
IOC3: Switch to pci refcounting safe APIs
e100: Fix Tyan motherboard e100 not receiving IPMI commands
QE Ethernet driver writes to wrong register to mask interrupts
rrunner.c:rr_init() must be __devinit
tokenring/3c359.c:xl_init() must be __devinit
...
Hi,
This is the third submission of the network driver for PS3.
The differences from the previous one are:
- renamed source file names so that their prefix can match
with the module name
- added cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org line for MAINTAINER file
- changed some in copyright comments
If there are no more comments, please apply for 2.6.23.
Thank you
--
Subject: PS3: Ethernet driver
From: Masakazu Mokuno <mokuno@sm.sony.co.jp>
Add Gigabit Ethernet support for the PS3 game console. The module will
be called ps3_gelic.
CC: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Masakazu Mokuno <mokuno@sm.sony.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Support for the Asix AX88796 network controller, an
NE2000 compatible 10/100 ethernet device with internal
PHY.
The driver supports PHY settings via either ioctl() or
the ethtool driver ops.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add an optional debug interface for displaying state of transmit/receive
rings. Creates a file debugfs/sky2/ethX for each device that is up.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Changes to last version:
- spelling fix
- cleaned up probe code
Thomas.
Ethernet driver for EISA only SNI RM200/RM400 machines
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
CONFIG_NETDEVICES, CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET:
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to
enter the menu first.
CONFIG_SMC9194:
Move it so that it appears correctly in menuconfig.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The EMAC driver, in drivers/net/ibm_emac, for the embedded Ethernet
MAC found in PowerPC 4xx embedded chips is not suitable for
arch/powerpc. It will not build because it relies on the old arch/ppc
OCP mechanism. BenH has a new, device-tree aware version of the
driver which will work in arch/powerpc, but until it's merged, this
patch will disable the old, non-building version.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
ucc_geth has been migrated to use the common phylib code. So lets add a
'select PHYLIB' to the UCC_GETH Kconfig entry.
Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <jan.altenberg@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hi,
This patch has removed unnecessary dependency on VIA velocity config.
Yoichi
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The UCC_GETH Kconfig option in drivers/net/Kconfig had a line to select the
UCC_FAST option is arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/Kconfig, which is only used
on PowerPC builds. On other architectures, this would generated a warning.
The fix is to have UCC_FAST depend on UCC_GETH.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IPoIB/cm: Optimize stale connection detection
IB/mthca: Set cleaned CQEs back to HW ownership when cleaning CQ
IB/mthca: Fix posting >255 recv WRs for Tavor
RDMA/cma: Add check to validate that cm_id is bound to a device
RDMA/cma: Fix synchronization with device removal in cma_iw_handler
RDMA/cma: Simplify device removal handling code
IB/ehca: Disable scaling code by default, bump version number
IB/ehca: Beautify sysfs attribute code and fix compiler warnings
IB/ehca: Remove _irqsave, move #ifdef
IB/ehca: Fix AQP0/1 QP number
IB/ehca: Correctly set GRH mask bit in ehca_modify_qp()
IB/ehca: Serialize hypervisor calls in ehca_register_mr()
IB/ipath: Shadow the gpio_mask register
IB/mlx4: Fix uninitialized spinlock for 32-bit archs
mlx4_core: Remove unused doorbell_lock
net: Trivial MLX4_DEBUG dependency fix.
CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG works out to a def_bool y for those that have
CONFIG_EMBEDDED set. Make it depend on MLX4_CORE.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
This patch creates platform_device entries for the Marvell mv64x60
ethernet controller ports, based on information contained in the
device tree.
This driver (like the other mv64x60 drivers) are unusual in that it
works on both the MIPS and PowerPC architectures. Because of that,
the drivers do not support the normal PowerPC of_platform_bus_type.
They support platform_bus_type instead.
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once
instead of going through all options.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IB/mlx4: Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters
IB: Put rlimit accounting struct in struct ib_umem
IB/uverbs: Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() to modules
It is preferable to group drivers by usage (net, scsi, ATA, ...) than
by bus. When reviewing drivers, the [PCI|USB|PCMCIA|...] maintainer
is probably less qualified on networking issues than a networking
maintainer. Also, from a practical standpoint, chips often
appear on multiple buses, which is why we do not put drivers into
drivers/pci/net.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add an InfiniBand driver for Mellanox ConnectX adapters. Because
these adapters can also be used as ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel
HBAs, the driver is split into two modules:
mlx4_core: Handles low-level things like device initialization and
processing firmware commands. Also controls resource allocation
so that the InfiniBand, ethernet and FC functions can share a
device without stepping on each other.
mlx4_ib: Handles InfiniBand-specific things; plugs into the
InfiniBand midlayer.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
This patch lets RBTX49XX boards use generic platform_driver interface
for the ne driver.
* Use platform_device to pass ioaddr and irq to the ne driver.
* Remove unnecessary ifdefs for RBTX49XX from the ne driver.
* Make the ne driver selectable on these boards regardless of CONFIG_ISA
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
As SMC91X ethernet controller are used in blackfin STAMP 533 development
board, this patch add blackfin support to the smc91x linux driver.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits)
kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault
kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir
kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found
kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death
kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message.
kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
usr/Kconfig: fix typo
kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'
kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file
kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.
kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries
kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es
kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text
kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c
kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE
kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man
kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper
kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config'
kbuild: override build timestamp & version
...
Fix a race condition in the transmit code, where the dma interrupt could update
the free tx buffer count concurrently and wedge the tx queue.
Fix the misuse of the rx frame status and rx frame length registers: no more
"fifo overrun" errors caused by the OFLOW bit being tested in the frame length
register (instead of the status register), and no more missed packets due to
incorrect length taken from status register (instead of the frame length
register).
Fix a panic (skb_over_panic BUG) caused by allocating and then copying an
incoming packet while the packet length register was changing.
Cut-and-paste the reset code from the powermac mace driver (mace.c), so the NIC
functions when MacOS does not initialise it (important for anyone wanting to
use the Emile boot loader).
Cut-and-paste the error counting and timeout recovery code from mace.c.
Fix over allocation of rx buffer memory (it's page order, not page count).
Converted to driver model.
Converted to DMA API.
Since I've run out of ways to make it fail, and since it performs well now,
promote the driver from EXPERIMENTAL status. Tested on both quadra 840av and
660av.
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
