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Randy Dunlap
b3df0da886 phy layer: add kernel-doc + DocBook
Convert function documentation in drivers/net/phy/ to kernel-doc
and add it to DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:57 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven
56e1393f82 user of the jiffies rounding code: e1000
Use the round_jiffies() function in e1000.

These timers all were of the "about once a second" or "about once every X
seconds" variety and several showed up in the "what wakes the cpu up" profiles
that the tickless patches provide.  Some timers are highly dynamic based on
network load; but even on low activity systems they still show up so the
rounding is done only in cases of low activity, allowing higher frequency
timers in the high activity case.

The various hardware watchdogs are an obvious case; they run every 2 seconds
but aren't otherwise specific of exactly when they need to run.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:57 -04:00
Atsushi Nemoto
eea221ce48 tc35815 driver update (take 2)
Current tc35815 driver is very obsolete and less maintained for a long
time.  Replace it with a new driver based on one from CELF patch
archive.

Major advantages of CELF version (version 1.23, for kernel 2.6.10) are:

* Independent of JMR3927.
  (Actually independent of MIPS, but AFAIK the chip is used only on
   MIPS platforms)
* TX4938 support.
* 64-bit proof.
* Asynchronous and on-demand auto negotiation.
* High performance on non-coherent architecture.
* ethtool support.
* Many bugfixes and cleanups.

And improvoments since version 1.23 are:

* TX4939 support.
* NETPOLL support.
* NAPI support. (disabled by default)
* Reduce memcpy on receiving.
* PM support.
* Many cleanups and bugfixes.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
3664006ab9 drivers/net/qla3xxx.c: make 2 functions static
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
7b49034399 make drivers/net/s2io.c:vlan_strip_flag static
This patch makes the needlessly global vlan_strip_flag static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Ladislav Michl
78ee5b3cc8 Add support for Seeq 8003 on Challenge S Mezz board.
Thanks to Jö Fahlke for donating hardware.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>

Forward porting of Ladis' 2.4 patch.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Jan-Bernd Themann
18604c5485 ehea: NAPI multi queue TX/RX path for SMP
This patch provides a functionality that allows parallel
RX processing on multiple RX queues by using dummy netdevices.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Jan-Bernd Themann
1acf2318dd ehea: dynamic add / remove port
This patch introduces functionality to dynamically add / remove
ehea ports via an userspace DLPAR tool. It creates a subnode for
each logical port in the sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
459e536b1d chelsio: use const for virtual functions
There are several uses of _ops structure in this driver that
can be converted to const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
4c247db114 chelsio: use C99 style initialization
Convert some initialized structures to C99 style.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:56 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
4d2b8f66b8 chelsio: remove unused code for 1G boards
Some code for Chelsio 1G boards was put in the driver
based on the vendor version (minus TOE). Well some of those board
versions are only supported with TOE on the vendor driver, so additional
dead code was added.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
Sam Ravnborg
0ae08183d8 [PATCH] bcm43xx: do not rebuild when kernel version changes
In bcm43xx_ethtool, UTS_RELEASE is used. Replacing this with utsname()->release
avoids rebuilding this module each time the kernel version changes.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
99d3184ac7 [PATCH] hostap: Add D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1 product id
It looks like some of the PC Card manfid/product strings were lost
when Host AP driver was converted to use PCMCIA_DEVICE_* helpers. This
patch adds back D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1 using the same product ID
string match as the pcmcia-cs/cardmgr configuration used before.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
Andrew Morton
742e9910d6 [PATCH] ipw2200: fix ieee80211_get_geo typo
testing much?

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
John W. Linville
b3f1b8cf11 [PATCH] libertas: fix build breakage from netdev class_device -> device
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
John W. Linville
ebb4e07e35 [PATCH] wireless: remove obsolete text files
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
Pavel Roskin
c6710e50f6 [PATCH] hostap: use offsetof() instead of own equivalent
The original macros result in gcc 4.2 warning about "cast from pointer
to integer of different size" on 64-bit systems.

Use of offsetof() on fields in substructures is widespread throughout
the kernel code and should work whether offsetof() is defined using
__compiler_offsetof() or a cast.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:55 -04:00
Marcelo Tosatti
876c9d3aeb [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver
Add the Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11 USB driver.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:54 -04:00
Ulrich Kunitz
35c3404efa [PATCH] zd1211rw: changed GFP_NOFS to GFP_KERNEL
Michael Buesch commented that GFP_NOFS should not be used in a
network driver.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:54 -04:00
Zhu Yi
375dd24428 [PATCH] ipw2200: add channels sysfs entry
Add 'channels' sysfs entry for ipw2200. The entry exports channels
information for the user space.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:54 -04:00
Neil Horman
dc5a144991 sis900: Allocate rx replacement buffer before rx operation
Just found a hole in my last patch.  It was reported to me that shortly after we
integrated this patch.  The report was of an oops that took place inside of
netif_rx when using the sis900 driver.  Looking at my origional patch I noted
that there was a spot between the new skb_alloc and the refill_rx_ring label
where skb got reassigned to the pointer currently held in the rx_ring for the
purposes of receiveing the frame.  The result of this is however that the buffer
that gets passed to netif_rx (if it is called), then gets placed right back into
the rx_ring.  So if you receive frames fast enough the skb being processed by
the network stack can get corrupted.  The reporter is testing out the fix I've
written for this below (I'm not near my hardware at the moment to test myself),
but I wanted to post it for review ASAP.  I'll post test results when I hear
them, but I think this is a pretty straightforward fix.  It just uses a separate
pointer to do the rx operation, so that we don't improperly reassign the pointer
that we use to refill the rx ring.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-27 20:16:41 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
87aebe078e PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the phy code doesn't make any sense.  They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but I am unsure about that.

Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c58b8e4a25 Merge branch 'e1000-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'e1000-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  e1000: FIX: Stop raw interrupts disabled nag from RT
  e1000: FIX: firmware handover bits
  e1000: FIX: be ready for incoming irq at pci_request_irq
2007-04-27 10:14:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0278ef8b48 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (67 commits)
  [SCSI] SUNESP: Complete driver rewrite to version 2.0
  [SPARC64]: Convert PCI over to generic struct iommu/strbuf.
  [SPARC]: device_node name constification fallout
  [SPARC64]: Convert SBUS over to generic iommu/strbuf structs.
  [SPARC64]: Add generic iommu and strbuf structs to iommu.h
  [SPARC64]: Consolidate {sbus,pci}_iommu_arena.
  [SPARC]: Make device_node name and type const
  [SPARC64]: constify some paramaters of OF routines
  [TIGON3]: of_get_property() returns const.
  [SPARC64]: Fix PCI rework to adhere to of_get_property() const return.
  [SPARC64]: Document and fix calculation of pages_avail.
  [SPARC64]: Make sure pbm->prom_node is setup easly enough in psycho.c
  [SPARC64]: Use bootmem_bootmap_pages() in choose_bootmap_pfn().
  [SPARC64]: Add proper header file extern for cmdline_memory_size.
  [SPARC64]: Kill sparc_ultra_dump_{i,d}tlb()
  [SPARC64]: Use DECLARE_BITMAP and BITS_TO_LONGS in mm/init.c
  [SPARC64]: Give move verbose show_mem() output just like i386.
  [SPARC64]: Mark show_mem() printk's with KERN_INFO.
  [SPARC64]: Kill kvaddr_to_phys() and friends.
  [SPARC64]: Privatize sun4u_get_pte() and fix name.
  ...
2007-04-27 09:29:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
374d4cac62 [TIGON3]: of_get_property() returns const.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:38 -07:00
David S. Miller
d297c31fd1 [TULIP]: Use pci_device_to_OF_node() on sparc.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:57 -07:00
David S. Miller
49345103fe [TULIP]: Use CONFIG_SPARC consistently in ifdef tests.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:55 -07:00
David S. Miller
49b6e95ff6 [TG3]: Use pci_device_to_OF_node() on sparc.
And use CONFIG_SPARC instead of CONFIG_SPARC64 as the
test.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
6f85a8597d [SUNHME]: Use pci_device_to_OF_node().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
457e1a8afb [SUNGEM]: Consolidate powerpc and sparc MAC probing code.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:48 -07:00
David S. Miller
dadb830dac [SUNGEM]: __sparc__ --> CONFIG_SPARC
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:46 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
ccf0dec6fc [SPARC/64] constify of_get_property return: drivers
The only unfortunate bit here is that the name field of struct map_info
is not const, so for now we put a cast on the assignment of it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:54:27 -07:00
Milind Arun Choudhary
57cd5f754e [NET]: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use DIV_ROUND_UP

Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:01:53 -07:00
Brian Braunstein
36226a8ded [NET] tun/tap: fixed hw address handling
Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses.  The hw address is stored
in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields.  These fields were
not kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to the same
value.  Now during both init and when performing SIOCSIFHWADDR on the tun
device these values are both updated.  However, if SIOCSIFHWADDR is
performed on the net device directly (for instance, setting the hw address
using ifconfig), the tun device does not get updated.  Perhaps the
tun.dev_addr field should be removed completely at some point, as it is
redundant and net_device.dev_addr can be used anywhere it is used.

Signed-off-by: Brian Braunstein <linuxkernel@bristyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:00:55 -07:00
Andrew Morton
55404bca6c [NET]: Fix yam.c
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c: In function `yam_tx_byte':
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c:643: warning: passing arg 1 of `skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset' from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:55:53 -07:00
Mark Huth
f50393fe86 e1000: FIX: Stop raw interrupts disabled nag from RT
Current e1000_xmit_frame spews raw interrupt disabled nag messages when
used with RT kernel patches.  This patch uses spin_trylock_irqsave,
which allows RT patches to properly manage the irq semantics.

Signed-off-by: Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-26 02:22:41 -04:00
Bruce Allan
31d76442f7 e1000: FIX: firmware handover bits
Upon code inspection it was spotted that the firmware handover bit get/set
mismatched, which may have resulted in management issues on PCI-E
adapters. Setting them correctly may fix some management issues such
as arp routing etc.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-26 02:22:41 -04:00
Auke Kok
e0aac5a289 e1000: FIX: be ready for incoming irq at pci_request_irq
DEBUG_SHIRQ code exposed that e1000 was not ready for incoming interrupts
after having called pci_request_irq. This obviously requires us to finish
our software setup which assigns the irq handler before we request the
irq.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-26 02:22:41 -04:00
John W. Linville
42431592e7 [WIRELESS] drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig: correct minor typo
Correct minor typo in drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig identified by
Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:43 -07:00
Johannes Berg
2a5e1c0eb9 [WIRELESS]: Refactor wireless Kconfig.
This patch refactors the wireless Kconfig all over and already
introduces net/wireless/Kconfig with just the WEXT bit for now,
the cfg80211 patch will add to that as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:40 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
599b1fa914 [IrDA]: Adding carriage returns to mcs7780 debug statements
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:31 -07:00
Michal Ostrowski
42dc9cd54b [PPPOE]: Fix device tear-down notification.
pppoe_flush_dev() kicks all sockets bound to a device that is going down.
In doing so, locks must be taken in the right order consistently (sock lock,
followed by the pppoe_hash_lock).  However, the scan process is based on
us holding the sock lock.  So, when something is found in the scan we must
release the lock we're holding and grab the sock lock.

This patch fixes race conditions between this code and pppoe_release(),
both of which perform similar functions but would naturally prefer to grab
locks in opposing orders.  Both code paths are now going after these locks
in a consistent manner.

pppoe_hash_lock protects the contents of the "pppox_sock" objects that reside
inside the hash.  Thus, NULL'ing out the pppoe_dev field should be done
under the protection of this lock.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:21 -07:00
Florian Zumbiehl
202a03acf9 [PPPOE]: memory leak when socket is release()d before PPPIOCGCHAN has been called on it
below you find a patch that fixes a memory leak when a PPPoE socket is
release()d after it has been connect()ed, but before the PPPIOCGCHAN ioctl
ever has been called on it.

This is somewhat of a security problem, too, since PPPoE sockets can be
created by any user, so any user can easily allocate all the machine's
RAM to non-swappable address space and thus DoS the system.

Is there any specific reason for PPPoE sockets being available to any
unprivileged process, BTW? After all, you need a packet socket for the
discovery stage anyway, so it's unlikely that any unprivileged process
will ever need to create a PPPoE socket, no? Allocating all session IDs
for a known AC is a kind of DoS, too, after all - with Juniper ERXes,
this is really easy, actually, since they don't ever assign session ids
above 8000 ...

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:20 -07:00
Florian Zumbiehl
74b885cf86 [PPPOE]: race between interface going down and connect()
below you find a patch that (hopefully) fixes a race between an interface
going down and a connect() to a peer on that interface. Before,
connect() would determine that an interface is up, then the interface
could go down and all entries referring to that interface in the
item_hash_table would be marked as ZOMBIEs and their references to
the device would be freed, and after that, connect() would put a new
entry into the hash table referring to the device that meanwhile is
down already - which also would cause unregister_netdevice() to wait
until the socket has been release()d.

This patch does not suffice if we are not allowed to accept connect()s
referring to a device that we already acked a NETDEV_GOING_DOWN for
(that is: all references are only guaranteed to be freed after
NETDEV_DOWN has been acknowledged, not necessarily after the
NETDEV_GOING_DOWN already). And if we are allowed to, we could avoid
looking through the hash table upon NETDEV_GOING_DOWN completely and
only do that once we get the NETDEV_DOWN ...

mostrows:
pppoe_flush_dev is called on NETDEV_GOING_DOWN and NETDEV_DOWN to deal with
this "late connect" issue.  Ideally one would hope to notify users at the
"NETDEV_GOING_DOWN" phase (just to pretend to be nice).  However, it is the
NETDEV_DOWN scan that takes all the responsibility for ensuring nobody is
hanging around at that time.

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:19 -07:00
Florian Zumbiehl
bfafb26e11 [PPPoE]: miscellaneous smaller cleanups
below is a patch that just removes dead code/initializers without any
effect (first access is an assignment) that I stumbled accross while
reading the source.

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:18 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
33036807b3 [NET]: loopback driver can use loopback_dev integrated net_device_stats
Rusty added a new 'stats' field to struct net_device.

loopback driver can use it instead of declaring another struct
net_device_stats This saves some memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:52 -07:00
Herbert Xu
628592ccdb [NETDRV]: Perform missing csum_offset conversions
When csum_offset was introduced we did a conversion from csum to
csum_offset where applicable.  A couple of drivers were missed in
this process.

It was harmless to begin with since the two fields coincided.  Now
that we've made them different with the addition of csum_start, the
missed drivers must be converted or they can't send packets out at
all that require checksum offload.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:41 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
27d7ff46a3 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_to_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
3dbad80ac7 [NET]: Fix warnings in 3c523.c and ni52.c
We have to put back the cast to "char *" because these
pointers are volatile.

Reported by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:27 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c45d286e72 [NET]: Inline net_device_stats
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them.  It would be nice if
this were done by default.

1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
   ->get_stats is set.

This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.

Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:26 -07:00