29 Jun, 2005

1 commit

  • Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily.

    In these situations, the code roughly looks like:

    dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);

    [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);

    ... skb->tail ...

    But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals
    skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
    other than skb->data in these cases.

    Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
    the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted
    to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed
    to do instead.

    Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB
    cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups,
    skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and
    replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
    Acked-by: Jeff Garzik

    David S. Miller
     

16 May, 2005

1 commit

  • …6 Neighbor-discovery multicast

    On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:36:42PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Summary: natsemi: incorrect initialization of IPv6 Neighbor-
    > discovery multicast

    I've got a pair of FA312 cards and this problem has bothered me
    for ages. This has finally prompted me to do something about it :)

    Turns out that somebody wasn't following the documentation. We were
    doing 16-bit writes to 32-bit registers which led to some addresses
    working and others not so lucky.

    This patch should fix the problem.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

    Herbert Xu
     

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