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David Woodhouse
ca6bb5d7ab [NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.
The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, relaxing
the permissions on the /dev/net/tun device node so that they can
actually use those devices will _also_ allow those users to create
arbitrary new devices of their own. This patch corrects that, and
adjusts the recommended permissions for the device node accordingly.

Signed-off-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d0b952a983 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (109 commits)
  [ETHTOOL]: Fix UFO typo
  [SCTP]: Fix persistent slowdown in sctp when a gap ack consumes rx buffer.
  [SCTP]: Send only 1 window update SACK per message.
  [SCTP]: Don't do CRC32C checksum over loopback.
  [SCTP] Reset rtt_in_progress for the chunk when processing its sack.
  [SCTP]: Reject sctp packets with broadcast addresses.
  [SCTP]: Limit association max_retrans setting in setsockopt.
  [PFKEYV2]: Fix inconsistent typing in struct sadb_x_kmprivate.
  [IPV6]: Sum real space for RTAs.
  [IRDA]: Use put_unaligned() in irlmp_do_discovery().
  [BRIDGE]: Add support for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM devices
  [NET]: Add NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM and NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM
  [TG3]: Convert to non-LLTX
  [TG3]: Remove unnecessary tx_lock
  [TCP]: Add tcp_slow_start_after_idle sysctl.
  [BNX2]: Update version and reldate
  [BNX2]: Use CPU native page size
  [BNX2]: Use compressed firmware
  [BNX2]: Add firmware decompression
  [BNX2]: Allow WoL settings on new 5708 chips
  ...

Manual fixup for conflict in drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
2006-06-19 18:55:56 -07:00
David S. Miller
35089bb203 [TCP]: Add tcp_slow_start_after_idle sysctl.
A lot of people have asked for a way to disable tcp_cwnd_restart(),
and it seems reasonable to add a sysctl to do that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu
932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Auke Kok
6224e01dcc [DOC] Update bonding documentation with sysfs info
Bonding documentation needed an update to include sysfs specific
information. This patch adds information on how to change bonding
parameters at runtime using the sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-06-08 11:15:35 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
badc48e660 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-05-20 00:03:38 -04:00
Stefan Rompf
3a01c1ef75 [NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-09 15:15:35 -07:00
Zhu Yi
555fd91852 [PATCH] ipw2200: update version stamp to 1.1.2
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-04-24 16:15:56 -04:00
Zhu Yi
c6c33a779d [PATCH] README.ipw2200: rename CONFIG_IPW_DEBUG to CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-04-24 16:15:56 -04:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
b8a99520f7 [XFRM]: Add documentation for async events.
Documentation to describe asynchronous xfrm events to help people
writting HA code in user space.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14 15:05:16 -07:00
Cal Peake
3d79c33bbd BFP->BPF in Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
BFP should be BPF (BSD Packet Filter)

Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:46:12 +02:00
Uwe Zeisberger
2e150f6e1a fix typo "Suposse" -> "Suppose"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:29:43 +02:00
Jeff Garzik
e21a2b0cc5 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2006-03-29 17:30:19 -05:00
David S. Miller
f1465f7ea9 [NET]: Kill Documentation/networking/TODO
Sorely out of date.  Add the linux-net wiki web site to
the NETWORKING maintainers entry, on which we maintain
the current networking TODO list.

Noticed by Randy Dunlap.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-28 17:02:42 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7f927fcc2f [PATCH] Typo fixes
Fix a lot of typos.  Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:08 -08:00
Michael Buesch
d5dd8e28aa [PATCH] bcm43xx: update README
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-27 11:18:34 -05:00
Michael Buesch
08ccd883f5 [PATCH] bcm43xx: Move README file to Documentation directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-27 11:18:25 -05:00
Steffen Klassert
8219dd5710 [PATCH] 3c59x: documentation update
Update driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1e8c573933 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...
2006-03-25 08:41:09 -08:00
Rusty Russell
8d3b33f67f [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused.  It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Uwe Zeisberger
c30fe7f731 fix typos "wich" -> "which"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:23:14 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
ca6549af77 [PKTGEN]: Add MPLS extension.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-23 01:10:26 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
ca94f26d2b Merge branch 'e1000-fixes' of git://198.78.49.142/~jbrandeb/linux-2.6 2006-03-21 16:40:51 -05:00
Rick Jones
15d99e02ba [TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale
Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit
window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated.  Some
ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of
the TCP header and would get confused.

Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default
now.

There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old
stacks

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:40:29 -08:00
Neil Horman
c1b1bce852 [IPV4] ARP: Documentation for new arp_accept sysctl variable.
As John pointed out, I had not added documentation to describe the
arp_accpet sysctl that I posted in my last patch.  This patch adds
that documentation.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:40:03 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
09c884d4c3 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
52e1635631 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add router_probe_interval sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:47 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
930d6ff2e2 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rtr_pref sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:30 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c4fd30eb18 [IPV6]: ADDRCONF: Add accept_ra_pinfo sysctl.
This controls whether we accept Prefix Information in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
65f5c7c114 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_defrtr sysctl.
This controls whether we accept default router information
in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:08 -08:00
Zhu Yi
171e7b2f1f [PATCH] ipw2x00: expend Copyright to 2006
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-17 16:14:47 -05:00
Olivier Hochreutiner
651be26f2d [PATCH] ipw2200: wireless extension sensitivity threshold support
The patch allows the user to set the handover threshold, i.e. the number
of consecutively missed beacons that will trigger a roaming attempt. The
disassociation threshold is set to 3 times the handover threshold.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Hochreutiner <olivier.hochreutiner@epfl.ch>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-17 15:08:04 -05:00
Henrik Brix Andersen
48a847709f [PATCH] ipw2200: print geography code upon module load
Given the amount of support requests for the meaning of the geography code
I've written a patch for printing this information on module load no matter
the debug level.

I've also added a section to the README.ipw2200 file listing the geography
codes and their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-17 15:08:02 -05:00
Jesse Brandeburg
55be062d2d e1000: update the readme with the latest text
The text of the e1000.txt file is a little stale, lets freshen it up.
(update) removed some non-kernel specific text

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
2006-03-15 12:18:13 -08:00
Jesse Brandeburg
823f8dd177 e100: update e100.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
2006-03-14 15:51:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
c3cf560e35 [PATCH] remove obsolete sis900 documentation
This documentation is mostly obsolete, and should therefore either be
updated or removed (this patch does the latter).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-04 12:03:31 -05:00
Horms
95f7daf1c0 [IPV4]: Document icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctl
Taken largely from the commit of the patch that added this feature:

1c2fb7f93c

I'm not sure about the ordering of the options in sysctl.txt,
so I took a wild guess about where it fits.
    
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-02 17:02:25 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
575c968718 spelling: s/appropiate/appropriate/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:00:17 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
a58a414fd5 spelling: s/usefull/useful/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:08:17 +01:00
Eric Paris
8fad6939af [PATCH] update bonding.txt to not show ip address on slaves
ifenslave, as of abi version 2, does not set the ip address on the slave
interfaces.  The documentation example however still shows that the
ensalved interfaces should have the same IP as the master.  The patch
simply removes the lines from the example which should no longer appear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

 bonding.txt |    2 --
 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-09 10:48:09 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d779188d2b Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2006-01-04 16:31:56 -08:00
Herbert Xu
89cee8b1cb [IPV4]: Safer reassembly
Another spin of Herbert Xu's "safer ip reassembly" patch
for 2.6.16.

(The original patch is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112281936522415&w=2
and my only contribution is to have tested it.)

This patch (optionally) does additional checks before accepting IP
fragments, which can greatly reduce the possibility of reassembling
fragments which originated from different IP datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:31 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
2226340eb8 Merge branch 'master' 2005-11-29 03:50:33 -05:00
Neil Horman
e6d184e331 [NET]: Fix ifenslave to not fail on lack of IP information
Patch to ifenslave so that under older ABI versions, a failure to propogate ip
information from master to slave does not result in a filure to enslave the
slave device.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-22 14:56:32 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
98766fbe60 [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections
Correct lots of URLs in Documentation/ Also a few minor whitespace cleanups
and typo/spello fixes.  Sadly there are still a lot of bad URLs remaining.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
Andy Fleming
7f7f53168d [PATCH] Gianfar update and sysfs support
This seems to have gotten lost, so I'll resend.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>

* Added sysfs support to gianfar for modifying FIFO and stashing parameters
* Updated driver to support 10 Mbit, full duplex operation
* Improved comments throughout
* Cleaned up and optimized offloading code
* Fixed a bug where rx buffers were being improperly mapped and unmapped
* (only manifested if cache-coherency was off)
* Added support for using the eTSEC exact-match MAC registers
* Bumped the version to 1.3
* Added support for distinguishing between reduced 100 and 10 Mbit modes
* Modified default coalescing values to lower latency
* Added documentation
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-18 13:31:26 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Ian McDonald
98069ff4ec [DCCP]: Create Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
This patch is a first go at some documentation. Please advise if gmail
has mangled patch and I will revert to an attachment:

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:04:33 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
eedb9f09e9 Merge rsync://bughost.org/repos/ipw-delta/ 2005-11-09 00:47:08 -05:00
James Ketrenos
826d2abe99 Updated READMEs and MAINTAINERS for the ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers.
Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
2005-11-07 18:56:59 -06:00