02 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • What this patch does is it removes two receive frame hooks (for bridge and for
    macvlan) from __netif_receive_skb. These are replaced them with a single
    hook for both. It only supports one hook per device because it makes no
    sense to do bridging and macvlan on the same device.

    Then a network driver (of virtual netdev like macvlan or bridge) can register
    an rx_handler for needed net device.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jiri Pirko
     

05 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
    in first line to ease grep games.

    struct something
    {

    becomes :

    struct something {

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Dumazet
     

12 Jun, 2008

1 commit


03 May, 2008

1 commit

  • The forwarding table binary interface (my bad choice), only exposes
    the port number of the first 8 bits. The bridge code was limited to
    256 ports at the time, but now the kernel supports up 1024 ports, so
    the upper bits are lost when doing:

    brctl showmacs

    The fix is to squeeze the extra bits into small hole left in data
    structure, to maintain binary compatiablity.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     

16 Oct, 2007

1 commit


11 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
    namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a
    network namespace variable, and then it picks up
    a few associated variables. The functions:
    dev_getbyhwaddr
    dev_getfirsthwbytype
    dev_get_by_flags
    dev_get_by_name
    __dev_get_by_name
    dev_get_by_index
    __dev_get_by_index
    dev_ioctl
    dev_ethtool
    dev_load
    wireless_process_ioctl

    were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
    deal with it.

    vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
    hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

    So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
    affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
    multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was
    simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
    namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network
    stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

    For now the ifindex generator is left global.

    Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
    we will have corner case problems with migration when
    we get that far.

    At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
    that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making
    the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
    the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
    you change namespaces, and the like.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     

26 Apr, 2007

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds