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This patch fixes the libertas driver incorrectly reporting that Wake-on-LAN
is not supported if Wake-on-LAN is currently disabled.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <sascha-pgp@silbe.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
allocated region.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@
- to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+ to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
if (to==NULL || ...) S
- memcpy(to, from, size);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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In suspend() host sleep is activated using already configured
host sleep parameters through wol command, and in resume() host
sleep is cancelled. Earlier priv->fw_ready flag used to reset and
set in suspend and resume handler respectively. Since after suspend
only host goes into sleep state and firmware is always ready, those
changes in flag state are removed.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Fixes:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: In function process_rxed_802_11_packet:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c:354: error: radiotap_hdr.flags may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits)
qlcnic: adding co maintainer
ixgbe: add support for active DA cables
ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames
ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic
ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled
ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter
ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp
ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer
ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address
ipv6: Use POSTDAD state
ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state
ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state
cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load
cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down
cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address
cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown.
cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops.
can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems
bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled
ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards
...
Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/
{pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and
wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal
(Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).
Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting
renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
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This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary
return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
void functions.
It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.
It also does not remove null void functions with return.
Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'
with some cleanups by hand.
Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
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Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it
in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss
(on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler.
Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Instead of the old pcmcia_request_irq() interface, drivers may now
choose between:
- calling request_irq/free_irq directly. Use the IRQ from *p_dev->irq.
- use pcmcia_request_irq(p_dev, handler_t); the PCMCIA core will
clean up automatically on calls to pcmcia_disable_device() or
device ejection.
- drivers still not capable of IRQF_SHARED (or not telling us so) may
use the deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() for the time
being; they might receive a shared IRQ nonetheless.
CC: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
CC: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.
In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.
The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).
Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.
mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.
One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.
Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):
* different HT/no-HT modes
currently you could start an HT AP and then
connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
which would configure the hardware for no HT;
that can be fixed fairly easily
* CSA
An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
might indicate switching channels, and in that
case we would follow it, regardless of how many
other interfaces are operating; this requires
more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
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The 'ready' condition was incorrectly evaluated which sometimes lead to
failures loading the second-stage firmware on 8686 devices.
(This was introduced in "libertas: consolidate SDIO firmware wait code".
-- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
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Davinci platforms apparently need more time in-between helper firmware
blocks. Even though this is an increased delay, we only take this hit
once at initialization time.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Consolidate a bunch of C&P code that waits for the firmware to be ready.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
net/core/ethtool.c
net/mac80211/scan.c
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Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
drivers/net/via-velocity.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
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When operating in 1-bit mode, SDAT1 is used as dedicated interrupt line.
However, the 8686 will only drive this line when the ECSI bit is set in
the CCCR_IF register.
Thanks to Alagu Sankar for pointing me in the right direction.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Alagu Sankar <alagusankar@embwise.com>
Cc: Volker Ernst <volker.ernst@txtr.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
drivers/net: Add missing unlock
net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
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Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.
+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The libertas driver calls wiphy_unregister() without a prior
wiphy_register() when a devices fails initialization. Fix this by
introducing a private flag.
[ 9.310000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[...]
[ 9.330000] [<c0311310>] (wiphy_unregister+0xfc/0x19c) from [<bf00c9ec>] (lbs_cfg_free+0x70/0x9c [libertas])
[ 9.330000] [<bf00c9ec>] (lbs_cfg_free+0x70/0x9c [libertas]) from [<bf014fdc>] (lbs_remove_card+0x180/0x210 [libertas])
[ 9.330000] [<bf014fdc>] (lbs_remove_card+0x180/0x210 [libertas]) from [<bf035394>] (if_sdio_probe+0xdc4/0xef4 [libertas_sdio])
[ 9.330000] [<bf035394>] (if_sdio_probe+0xdc4/0xef4 [libertas_sdio]) from [<c0230d14>] (sdio_bus_probe+0xd4/0xf0)
[ 9.330000] [<c0230d14>] (sdio_bus_probe+0xd4/0xf0) from [<c01a6034>] (driver_probe_device+0xa4/0x174)
[ 9.330000] [<c01a6034>] (driver_probe_device+0xa4/0x174) from [<c01a6164>] (__driver_attach+0x60/0x84)
[ 9.330000] [<c01a6164>] (__driver_attach+0x60/0x84) from [<c01a5854>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x4c/0x8c)
[ 9.330000] [<c01a5854>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x4c/0x8c) from [<c01a50e4>] (bus_add_driver+0xa0/0x228)
[ 9.330000] [<c01a50e4>] (bus_add_driver+0xa0/0x228) from [<c01a6470>] (driver_register+0xc0/0x150)
[ 9.330000] [<c01a6470>] (driver_register+0xc0/0x150) from [<bf03a06c>] (if_sdio_init_module+0x6c/0x108 [libertas_sdio])
[ 9.330000] [<bf03a06c>] (if_sdio_init_module+0x6c/0x108 [libertas_sdio]) from [<c00263ac>] (do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x1bc)
[ 9.330000] [<c00263ac>] (do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x1bc) from [<c0069f80>] (sys_init_module+0xc0/0x1f0)
[ 9.330000] [<c0069f80>] (sys_init_module+0xc0/0x1f0) from [<c0026f00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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Auto auth mode is enabled by default. If user doesn't specify the
auth mode, while association driver will first try with open mode
and then with shared key mode. If user specifies an auth mode,
auto auth is disabled and driver will not try association with
another auth mode.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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also added missed locking in rndis_wlan.c
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Retrying commands seldomly works, most often the firmware is in a
weird state anyway and needs the device to reset. So it's better
to report the broken state back to user-space.
Also rename command_timer_fn() into lbs_cmd_timeout_handler(),
which better reflect it's usage.
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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libertas/if_spi.c needs to #include linux/semaphore.h to fix build errors:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:59: error: field 'spi_ready' has incomplete type
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:60: error: field 'spi_thread_terminated' has incomplete type
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:785: error: implicit declaration of function 'down_interruptible'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:787: error: implicit declaration of function 'up'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:834: error: implicit declaration of function 'down'
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c:943: error: implicit declaration of function 'sema_init'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Comment text suggested by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> in
<1263952092.4481.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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With the v10 firmware running on 8688 HW, clearing WPA keys after setting the
WEP key prevents us from being able to associate with WEP APs.
Swapping the calling order for assoc_helper_wpa_keys() and
assoc_helper_wep_keys fixes that issue.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/benet/be_cmds.h
include/linux/sysctl.h
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
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There is no reason to signal a carrier off when doing a 802.11 scan.
Cc: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Commit f001fde5eadd915f4858d22ed70d7040f48767cf changed
net_device.dev_addr from a 32-byte array to a pointer.
I found 4 ethernet drivers which rely on sizeof(dev_addr), which are now
only copying 4 bytes of the address information on 32bit systems.
Fix them to use ETH_ALEN.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix the "ignoring return value of '...', declared with attribute
warn_unused_result" compiler warning in several users of the new kfifo
API.
It removes the __must_check attribute from kfifo_in() and
kfifo_in_locked() which must not necessary performed.
Fix the allocation bug in the nozomi driver file, by moving out the
kfifo_alloc from the interrupt handler into the probe function.
Fix the kfifo_out() and kfifo_out_locked() users to handle a unexpected
end of fifo.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers
ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out...
Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.
Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo
should be reserved for internal functions only.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo. Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains. Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.
I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:
- The API is to simple, important functions are missing
- A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
- There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
- There is no support for data records inside a fifo
So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much. The new API has the following benefits:
- Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
- Provide an API for the most use case.
- Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
- Linux style habit.
- DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
- Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
- The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
- Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
- Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
one is required.
- Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
- Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
field of 1 bytes.
- Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
field of 2 bytes.
- Fixed size records, which no record size field.
- Preserve memory resource.
- Performance!
- Easy to use!
This patch:
Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure. This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them. This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sascha Silbe
Walter Goldens
Julia Lawall
Amitkumar Karwar
Prarit Bhargava
Linus Torvalds
Joe Perches
John W. Linville
Eric Dumazet
Dominik Brodowski
Johannes Berg
Dan Williams
David S. Miller
Daniel Mack
Jiri Pirko
Frans Pop
Tejun Heo
Stewart Malik
Holger Schurig
Randy Dunlap
Samuel Ortiz
Daniel Drake
Stefani Seibold