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2013-01-10cxgb4: Fix incorrect PFVF CMASKVipul Pandya
With Hard-Wired firmware configuration it was incorrectly provisioning the VFs Channel Access Rights Mask. Signed-off-by: Jay Hernandez <jay@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Vipul Pandya <vipul@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10DSA: Convert spaces to tabs where appropriateBarry Grussling
Fix DSA whitespace issues reported by checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Barry Grussling <barry@grussling.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10DSA: Convert printk calls to netdev_info callsBarry Grussling
Convert DSA printk calls to netdev_info calls as recommended by checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Barry Grussling <barry@grussling.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10DSA: Convert repeated msleep calls to timeoutsBarry Grussling
Convert DSA msleep calls to timeout/usleep_range calls as reported by checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Barry Grussling <barry@grussling.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10DSA: Convert DSA comments to network-style commentsBarry Grussling
Convert DSA driver comments to network-style comments as reported by checkpatch.pl. Fix spelling error. Signed-off-by: Barry Grussling <barry@grussling.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10ipv6: Optimize ipv6_change_dsfield().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Do not convert endian back and forth. If the caller uses contant "mask" argument (and most callers do), we can omit runtime endian conversion here. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10ipv6: Use container_of macro instead of magic number to get ipv6 header.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In ipv6_recv_error(), addr_offset points to daddr field of the ip header. To get ipv6 header, use container_of() macro instead of substracting magic number (24). Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10bnx2x: NULL dereference on error in debug codeDan Carpenter
"vfop" is NULL here. I've changed the debugging to not use it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Acked-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10unix: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in af_unix_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10rxrpc: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in af_rxrpc_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10openvswitch: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in dp_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10netlink: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in netlink_proto_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10ipv6: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in inet6_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10ipv4: Use FIELD_SIZEOF() in inet_init().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10bgmac: driver for GBit MAC core on BCMA busRafał Miłecki
BCMA is a Broadcom specific bus with devices AKA cores. All recent BCMA based SoCs have gigabit ethernet provided by the GBit MAC core. This patch adds driver for such a cores registering itself as a netdev. It has been tested on a BCM4706 and BCM4718 chipsets. In the kernel tree there is already b44 driver which has some common things with bgmac, however there are many differences that has led to the decision or writing a new driver: 1) GBit MAC cores appear on BCMA bus (not SSB as in case of b44) 2) There is 64bit DMA engine which differs from 32bit one 3) There is no CAM (Content Addressable Memory) in GBit MAC 4) We have 4 TX queues on GBit MAC devices (instead of 1) 5) Many registers have different addresses/values 6) RX header flags are also different The driver in it's state is functional how, however there is of course place for improvements: 1) Supporting more net_device_ops 2) SUpporting more ethtool_ops 3) Unaligned addressing in DMA 4) Writing separated PHY driver Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09remove init of dev->perm_addr in driversJiri Pirko
perm_addr is initialized correctly in register_netdevice() so to init it in drivers is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09net: init perm_addr in register_netdevice()Jiri Pirko
Benefit from the fact that dev->addr_assign_type is set to NET_ADDR_PERM in case the device has permanent address. This also fixes the problem that many drivers do not set perm_addr at all. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09netconsole: add IPv6 example in docCong Wang
Update the netconsole document as well. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09netpoll: add IPv6 supportCong Wang
Currently, netpoll only supports IPv4. This patch adds IPv6 support to netpoll so that we can run netconsole over IPv6 network. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09ipv6: move csum_ipv6_magic() and udp6_csum_init() into static libraryCong Wang
As suggested by David, udp6_csum_init() is too big to be inlined, move it to ipv6 static library, net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c. And the generic csum_ipv6_magic() too. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09netpoll: prepare for ipv6Cong Wang
This patch adjusts some struct and functions, to prepare for supporting IPv6. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09net: fec: Remove 'inline' declarationsFabio Estevam
Fix the following warning when building with W=1 option: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.c:810:1: warning: '__inline__' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] The inline declaration is pointless in this function, so just remove it. While at it, also remove the other 'inline' declarations. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09net: introduce skb_transport_header_was_set()Eric Dumazet
We have skb_mac_header_was_set() helper to tell if mac_header was set on a skb. We would like the same for transport_header. __netif_receive_skb() doesn't reset the transport header if already set by GRO layer. Note that network stacks usually reset the transport header anyway, after pulling the network header, so this change only allows a followup patch to have more precise qdisc pkt_len computation for GSO packets at ingress side. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-09Merge branch 'delete-8390-EISA' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Paul Gortmaker says: ==================== I'd like to propose that we get rid of these old 8390 EISA drivers. Of the five deleted here, I wrote four -- and while that doesn't give me any authority for deletion above anyone else, it does at least allow me to comment on the absolute absence of anyone reaching out to the driver author for assistance in the last dozen years. Eventually we'll probably get rid of EISA bus support, since in x86, the hardware is close to 20 years old and already too resource constrained to be useful today. However there might still be a few DEC Alpha enthusiasts with old EISA machines kept alive, and so I expect we'll have to wait a bit longer to get unanimous agreement to proceed with the full EISA removal (although I'd love to be proven wrong on that). Most of the DEC Alpha machines shipped in a PCI configuration, and even the few that were EISA had DEC tulip based ethernet and no reason to be needing the inferior 8390 technology. So the interest here for any possible DEC enthusiasts with EISA boxes about these old 8390 drivers should be nil. These really were rare cards -- in fact the smc-ultra32 is the only one that I'd ever seen in person. Even back in the mid 90's when the drivers were written, I would guess that the user base was less than 10 people across all of them. The following patch was created with --irreversible-delete for ease of review (it skips showing the content of files that are deleted); however the complete patch can be pulled as per below. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08ethtool: consolidate work with ethtool_opsJiri Pirko
No need to check if ethtool_ops == NULL since it can't be. Use local variable "ops" in functions where it is present instead of dev->ethtool_ops Introduce local variable "ops" in functions where dev->ethtool_ops is used many times. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08bnx2x: Segregate SR-IOV codeAriel Elior
In this patch the SR-IOV code is segregated from the main bulk of the bnx2x code. The CONFIG_BNX2X_SRIOV define is added to Broadcom's Kconfig, and allows the elision of the building of all the SR-IOV support code in the driver. The define is dependant on the kernel CONFIG_PCI_IOV configuration define. Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08net: fec: report correct hardware stamping info to ethtoolFrank Li
Report correct hardware stamping capability by ethtool interface. The v1.0 ptp4l check it. Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com> Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08veth: avoid a NULL deref in veth_stats_oneEric Dumazet
commit 2681128f0ced8a (veth: extend device features) added a NULL deref in veth_stats_one(), as veth_get_stats64() was not testing if the peer device was setup or not. At init time, we call dev_get_stats() before veth pair is fully setup. [ 178.854758] [<ffffffffa00f5677>] veth_get_stats64+0x47/0x70 [veth] [ 178.861013] [<ffffffff814f0a2d>] dev_get_stats+0x6d/0x130 [ 178.866486] [<ffffffff81504efc>] rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x47c/0x930 [ 178.872299] [<ffffffff81505b93>] rtmsg_ifinfo+0x83/0x100 [ 178.877678] [<ffffffff81505cc6>] rtnl_configure_link+0x76/0xa0 [ 178.883580] [<ffffffffa00f52fa>] veth_newlink+0x16a/0x350 [veth] [ 178.889654] [<ffffffff815061cc>] rtnl_newlink+0x4dc/0x5e0 [ 178.895128] [<ffffffff81505e1e>] ? rtnl_newlink+0x12e/0x5e0 [ 178.900769] [<ffffffff8150587d>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x11d/0x310 [ 178.906669] [<ffffffff81505760>] ? __rtnl_unlock+0x20/0x20 [ 178.912225] [<ffffffff81521f89>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xd0 [ 178.917779] [<ffffffff81502d55>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x25/0x40 [ 178.923159] [<ffffffff815218d1>] netlink_unicast+0x1b1/0x230 [ 178.928887] [<ffffffff81521c4e>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2fe/0x3b0 [ 178.934615] [<ffffffff814dbe22>] sock_sendmsg+0xd2/0xf0 So we must check if peer was setup in veth_get_stats64() As pointed out by Ben Hutchings, priv->peer is missing proper synchronization. Adding RCU protection is a safe and well documented way to make sure we don't access about to be freed or already freed data. Reported-by: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-08chelsio: Use netdev_<level> and pr_<level>Joe Perches
Use more current logging styles. Convert printks to pr_<level> and printks with ("%s: ...", dev->name to netdev_<level>(dev, "... Add pr_fmt #defines where appropriate. Coalesce formats. Use pr_<level>_once where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers.Paul Gortmaker
The NS8390 chip was essentially the 1st widespread PC ethernet chip, starting its life on 8 bit ISA cards in the late 1980s. Even with better technologies available (bus mastering etc) the 8390 managed to get used on a few rare EISA cards in the early to mid 1990s. The EISA bus in the x86 world was largely confined to systems ranging from 486 to 586 (essentially 200MHz or lower, and less than 100MB RAM) -- i.e. machines unlikely to be still in service, and even less likely to be running a 3.9+ kernel. On top of that, only one of the five really ever was considered non-experimental; the smc-ultra32 was the one -- since it was largely just an EISA version of the popular smc-ultra ISA card. All the others had such a tiny user base that they simply never could be considered anything more than experimental. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-07drivers/net: remove orphaned references to micro channelPaul Gortmaker
We threw away the microchannel support, but the removal wasn't completely trivial since there was namespace overlap with the machine check support, and hence some orphaned dependencies survived the deletion. This attempts to sweep those up and send them to the bit-bucket. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07team: use strlcpy with ethtool_drvinfo fieldsFlavio Leitner
The fields must be null-terminated. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07tcp: make sysctl_tcp_ecn namespace awareHannes Frederic Sowa
As per suggestion from Eric Dumazet this patch makes tcp_ecn sysctl namespace aware. The reason behind this patch is to ease the testing of ecn problems on the internet and allows applications to tune their own use of ecn. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07ndisc: Use struct rd_msg for redirect message.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07net: splice: avoid high order page splittingEric Dumazet
splice() can handle pages of any order, but network code tries hard to split them in PAGE_SIZE units. Not quite successfully anyway, as __splice_segment() assumed poff < PAGE_SIZE. This is true for the skb->data part, not necessarily for the fragments. This patch removes this logic to give the pages as they are in the skb. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07net: use ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN instead of ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN for fw_ver stringsJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in driversJiri Pirko
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated. Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN and custom defines. Use snprintf instead of sprint. Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07ethtool: set addr_assign_type to NET_ADDR_SET when addr is passed on createJiri Pirko
In case user passed address via netlink during create, NET_ADDR_PERM was set. That is not correct so fix this by setting NET_ADDR_SET. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07ethoc: fix mac address setJiri Pirko
Function ethoc_set_mac_address() was incorrectly using passed pointer as pointer to address, that is not correct. Struct sockaddr have to be be used here. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07tg3: Remove IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HWMON) checkNithin Nayak Sujir
Commit de0a41484c47d783dd4d442914815076aa2caac2 added Kconfig logic to select HWMON and removed all the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HWMON) checks in the tg3.c file. It missed this one check in the header. Update version to 3.129 and update copyright year. Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07tg3: Improve PCI function number detection.Michael Chan
Simplify the code to detect PCI function number on 5717, 5719, and 5720. If shared memory does not have proper signature, read the function number from register directly. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07tg3: Add NVRAM support for 5762Michael Chan
Detect NVRAM types for 5762 and read OTP firmware version. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-07tg3: Add support for new 5762 ASICMichael Chan
Add basic support for 5762 which is a 57765_PLUS class device. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04ndisc: Remove unused space at tail of skb for ndisc messages. (TAKE 3)YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Currently, the size of skb allocated for NDISC is MAX_HEADER + LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) + packet length + dev->needed_tailroom, but only LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) bytes is "reserved" for headers. As a result, the skb looks like this (after construction of the message): head data tail end +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |<-hlen---->|<---ipv6 packet------>|<--tlen-->|<--MAX_HEADER-->| =LL_ = dev RESERVED_ ->needed_ SPACE(dev) tailroom As the name implies, "MAX_HEADER" is used for headers, and should be "reserved" in prior to packet construction. Or, if some space is really required at the tail of ther skb, it should be explicitly documented. We have several option after construction of NDISC message: Option 1: head data tail end +---------------------------------------------+ + | | | +---------------------------------------------+ |<-hlen---->|<---ipv6 packet------>|<--tlen-->| =LL_ = dev RESERVED_ ->needed_ SPACE(dev) tailroom Option 2: head data tail end +--------------------------------------------------+ + | | | +--------------------------------------------------+ |<--MAX_HEADER-->|<---ipv6 packet------>|<--tlen-->| = dev ->needed_ tailroom Option 3: head data tail end +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |<--MAX_HEADER-->|<-hlen---->|<---ipv6 packet------>|<--tlen-->| =LL_ = dev RESERVED_ ->needed_ SPACE(dev) tailroom Our tunnel drivers try expanding headroom and the space for tunnel encapsulation was not a mandatory space -- so we are not seeing bugs here --, but just for optimization for performance critial situations. Since NDISC messages are not performance critical unlike TCP, and as we know outgoing device, LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) should be just enough for the device in most (if not all) cases: LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) <= LL_MAX_HEADER <= MAX_HEADER Note that LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) is also enough for NDISC over SIT (e.g., ISATAP). So, I think Option 1 is just fine here. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04NET: FEC: dynamtic check DMA desc buff typeFrank Li
MX6 and mx28 support enhanced DMA descriptor buff to support 1588 ptp. But MX25, MX3x, MX5x can't support enhanced DMA descriptor buff. Check fec type and choose correct DMA descriptor buff type. Remove static config CONFIG_FEC_PTP. ptp function will be auto detected. Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com> Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04ethernet/broadcom/tg3: Fix sparse warning: constant 0x7fffffffffffffff is so ↵Peter Hüwe
big it is long long Sparse complains that: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c:5670:55: sparse: constant 0x7fffffffffffffff is so big it is long long (on x86/32 bit) so we suffix the constant with LL in the header file. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04smsc95xx: enable dynamic autosuspendSteve Glendinning
This patch enables USB dynamic autosuspend for LAN9500A. This saves very little power in itself, but it allows power saving in upstream hubs/hosts. The earlier devices in this family (LAN9500/9512/9514) do not support this feature. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04smsc95xx: eliminate duplicate warnings on io failureSteve Glendinning
The register read/write functions already log a warning if an access fails, so this patch removes the additional warnings logged by callers that don't add any more information. This patch makes the resulting driver smaller by not containing as many warning strings. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04net: introduce upper device lists and remove dev->masterDavid S. Miller
Jiri Pirko says: ==================== This is a V6 of a repost of my previous patchset: "[patch net-next v2 00/15] net: introduce upper device lists and remove dev->master" from Aug 14 The discussion around "[net-next] bonding: don't allow the master to become its slave" forced me to think about upper<->lower device connections. This patchset adds a possibility to record upper device linkage. All upper<->lower devices are converted to use this mechanism right after. That leads to dev->master removal because this info becomes redundant since "master links" have the same value. After all changes, there is no longer possible to do things as: "bond->someotherdevice->samebond" Also I think that drivers like cxgb3, qlcnic, qeth would benefit by this in future by being able to get more appropriate info about l3 addresses. v5->v6: - netdev_has_upper_dev() - added statement to comment that this is looking at the immediate upper devices only. - renamed "RTNL semaphore" -> "RTNL lock" in all comments - renamed __netdev_has_upper_dev() to __netdev_search_upper_dev() to emhasize the difference to netdev_has_upper_dev() v4->v5: - fixed missed typo in drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c v3->v4: - comments in __netdev_upper_dev_link() squashed into one line - kfree_rcu used instead of call_rcu in netdev_upper_dev_unlink() v2->v3: - removed recursion in __netdev_has_upper_dev() - refreshed bits to be applicable on current net-next v1->v2: - s/unique/master/ better naming + stays closer to the past - fixed vlan err goto - original patch 15 (WARN_ON change) is squashed into the first patch ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-04net: kill dev->masterJiri Pirko
Nobody uses this now. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>