04 Dec, 2011
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Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross
30 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Networking stack support for byte queue limits, uses dynamic queue
limits library. Byte queue limits are maintained per transmit queue,
and a dql structure has been added to netdev_queue structure for this
purpose.Configuration of bql is in the tx- sysfs directory for the queue
under the byte_queue_limits directory. Configuration includes:
limit_min, bql minimum limit
limit_max, bql maximum limit
hold_time, bql slack hold timeAlso under the directory are:
limit, current byte limit
inflight, current number of bytes on the queueSigned-off-by: Tom Herbert
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Nov, 2011
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This patch adds in the infrastructure code to create the network priority
cgroup. The cgroup, in addition to the standard processes file creates two
control files:1) prioidx - This is a read-only file that exports the index of this cgroup.
This is a value that is both arbitrary and unique to a cgroup in this subsystem,
and is used to index the per-device priority map2) priomap - This is a writeable file. On read it reports a table of 2-tuples
where name is the name of a network interface and priority is
indicates the priority assigned to frames egresessing on the named interface and
originating from a pid in this cgroupThis cgroup allows for skb priority to be set prior to a root qdisc getting
selected. This is benenficial for DCB enabled systems, in that it allows for any
application to use dcb configured priorities so without application modificationSigned-off-by: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
CC: Robert Love
CC: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 Jul, 2011
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The NFC subsystem core is responsible for providing the device driver
interface. It is also responsible for providing an interface to the control
operations and data exchange.Signed-off-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio
Signed-off-by: Aloisio Almeida Jr
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
30 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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module_alloc() and module_free() are available only if CONFIG_MODULES=y
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
28 Apr, 2011
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In order to speedup packet filtering, here is an implementation of a
JIT compiler for x86_64It is disabled by default, and must be enabled by the admin.
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
It uses module_alloc() and module_free() to get memory in the 2GB text
kernel range since we call helpers functions from the generated code.EAX : BPF A accumulator
EBX : BPF X accumulator
RDI : pointer to skb (first argument given to JIT function)
RBP : frame pointer (even if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n)
r9d : skb->len - skb->data_len (headlen)
r8 : skb->dataTo get a trace of generated code, use :
echo 2 >/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
Example of generated code :
# tcpdump -p -n -s 0 -i eth1 host 192.168.20.0/24
flen=18 proglen=147 pass=3 image=ffffffffa00b5000
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5000: 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 60 48 89 5d f8 44 8b 4f 60
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5010: 44 2b 4f 64 4c 8b 87 b8 00 00 00 be 0c 00 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5020: e8 24 7b f7 e0 3d 00 08 00 00 75 28 be 1a 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5030: 00 e8 fe 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0 74 49 be
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5040: 1e 00 00 00 e8 eb 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5050: 74 36 eb 3b 3d 06 08 00 00 74 07 3d 35 80 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5060: 75 2d be 1c 00 00 00 e8 c8 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5070: 14 a8 c0 74 13 be 26 00 00 00 e8 b5 7a f7 e0 24
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5080: 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0 75 07 b8 ff ff 00 00 eb 02 31
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5090: c0 c9 c3BPF program is 144 bytes long, so native program is almost same size ;)
(000) ldh [12]
(001) jeq #0x800 jt 2 jf 8
(002) ld [26]
(003) and #0xffffff00
(004) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 5
(005) ld [30]
(006) and #0xffffff00
(007) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 17
(008) jeq #0x806 jt 10 jf 9
(009) jeq #0x8035 jt 10 jf 17
(010) ld [28]
(011) and #0xffffff00
(012) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 13
(013) ld [38]
(014) and #0xffffff00
(015) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 17
(016) ret #65535
(017) ret #0Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Ben Hutchings
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
25 Jan, 2011
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Allow drivers for multiqueue hardware with flow filter tables to
accelerate RFS. The driver must:1. Set net_device::rx_cpu_rmap to a cpu_rmap of the RX completion
IRQs (in queue order). This will provide a mapping from CPUs to the
queues for which completions are handled nearest to them.2. Implement net_device_ops::ndo_rx_flow_steer. This operation adds
or replaces a filter steering the given flow to the given RX queue, if
possible.3. Periodically remove filters for which rps_may_expire_flow() returns
true.Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Fix spelling mistakes in comments
Revert conflicting V4L changes
i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
mm/rmap.c: fix comment
sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
init/Kconfig: fix typo
anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
poll: fix a typo in comment
...Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
- fs/ext4/ext4.hAlso fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
17 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
29 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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This patch adds XPS_CONFIG option to enable and disable XPS. This is
done in the same manner as RPS_CONFIG. This is also fixes build
failure in XPS code when SMP is not enabled.Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
16 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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Some of the documentation refers to web pages under
the domain `osdl.org'. However, `osdl.org' now
redirects to `linuxfoundation.org'.Rather than rely on redirections, this patch updates
the addresses appropriately; for the most part, only
documentation that is meant to be current has been
updated.The patch should be pretty quick to scan and check;
each new web-page url was gotten by trying out the
original URL in a browser and then simply copying the
the redirected URL (formatting as necessary).There is some conflict as to which one of these domain
names is preferred:linuxfoundation.org
linux-foundation.orgSo, I wrote:
info@linuxfoundation.org
and got this reply:
Message-ID:
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:41:42 -0800
From: David Ames...
linuxfoundation.org is preferred. The canonical name for our web site is
www.linuxfoundation.org. Our list site is actually
lists.linux-foundation.org.Regarding email linuxfoundation.org is preferred there are a few people
who choose to use linux-foundation.org for their own reasons.Consequently, I used `linuxfoundation.org' for web pages and
`lists.linux-foundation.org' for mailing-list web pages and email addresses;
the only personal email address I updated from `@osdl.org' was that of
Andrew Morton, who prefers `linux-foundation.org' according `git log'.Signed-off-by: Michael Witten
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
21 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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This factors out protocol and low-level storage parts of ceph into a
separate libceph module living in net/ceph and include/linux/ceph. This
is mostly a matter of moving files around. However, a few key pieces
of the interface change as well:- ceph_client becomes ceph_fs_client and ceph_client, where the latter
captures the mon and osd clients, and the fs_client gets the mds client
and file system specific pieces.
- Mount option parsing and debugfs setup is correspondingly broken into
two pieces.
- The mon client gets a generic handler callback for otherwise unknown
messages (mds map, in this case).
- The basic supported/required feature bits can be expanded (and are by
ceph_fs_client).No functional change, aside from some subtle error handling cases that got
cleaned up in the refactoring process.Signed-off-by: Sage Weil
15 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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You cannot invoke __smp_call_function_single() unless the
architecture sets this symbol.Reported-by: Daniel Hellstrom
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own
module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS
filesystem module.This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have
it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel
in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys
can be retained in keyrings.Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive
description that is of the form "[:]". The optional
indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The
is the query to be made.If isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the
result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a
comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key
and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is
invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution.The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function,
which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This
part remains in the CIFS module for now.See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: Wang Lei
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Steve French
27 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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WIRELESS_EXT is not the correct dependency.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
19 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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This patch adds a new networking option to allow hardware time stamps
from PHY devices. When enabled, likely candidates among incoming and
outgoing network packets are offered to the PHY driver for possible
time stamping. When accepted by the PHY driver, incoming packets are
deferred for later delivery by the driver.The patch also adds phylib driver methods for the SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl
and callbacks for transmit and receive time stamping. Drivers may
optionally implement these functions.Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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This patch splits the pppol2tp driver into separate L2TP and PPP parts
to prepare for L2TPv3 support. In L2TPv3, protocols other than PPP can
be carried, so this split creates a common L2TP core that will handle
the common L2TP bits which protocol support modules such as PPP will
use.Note that the existing pppol2tp module is split into l2tp_core and
l2tp_ppp by this change.There are no feature changes here. Internally, however, there are
significant changes, mostly to handle the separation of PPP-specific
data from the L2TP session and to provide hooks in the core for
modules like PPP to access.Signed-off-by: James Chapman
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
31 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Kconfig and Makefiles with options for:
CAIF: Including caif
CAIF_DEBUG: CAIF Debug
CAIF_NETDEV: CAIF Network Device for GPRS ContextsSigned-off-by: Sjur Braendeland
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
26 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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RPS currently depends on SMP and SYSFS
Adding a CONFIG_RPS makes sense in case this requirement changes in the
future. This patch saves about 1500 bytes of kernel text in case SMP is
on but SYSFS is off.Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
15 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
09 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Add support for communication over IEEE 802.15.4 networks. This implementation
is neither certified nor complete, but aims to that goal. This commit contains
only the socket interface for communication over IEEE 802.15.4 networks.
One can either send RAW datagrams or use SOCK_DGRAM to encapsulate data
inside normal IEEE 802.15.4 packets.Configuration interface, drivers and software MAC 802.15.4 implementation will
follow.Initial implementation was done by Maxim Gorbachyov, Maxim Osipov and Pavel
Smolensky as a research project at Siemens AG. Later the stack was heavily
reworked to better suit the linux networking model, and is now maitained
as an open project partially sponsored by Siemens.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
08 May, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Ashish Karkare
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
27 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
22 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Now that most network device drivers in (all but one in x86_64 allmodconfig)
support net_device_ops. Expose it as a configuration parameter. Still
need to address even older 32 bit drivers, and other arch before
compatiablity can be scheduled for removal in some future release.Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
14 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitor
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
include/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
net/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
net/core/Makefile | 1 +
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
27 Feb, 2009
1 commit
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Add RDS Kconfig and Makefile, and modify net/'s to add
us to the build.Signed-off-by: Andy Grover
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
27 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont
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Make NET_NS available underneath the generic Namespaces config option
since all of the other namespace options are there.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
08 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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This patch provides Makefile and KConfig for the WiMAX stack,
integrating them into the networking stack's Makefile, Kconfig and
doc-book templates.Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
22 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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The old ieee80211 code only remains as a support library for the ipw2100
and ipw2200 drivers. So, move the code and rename it appropriately to
reflects it's true purpose and status.Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
21 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe
driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the
kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) -
which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic
based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) -
which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at
granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x).Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
28 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
compiled and run at the same time. To do this only
virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
in the kobject tree.Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
hardware wise that needs device management there should
be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
by implication sysfs. The gain in ease of testing
and code coverage should be significant.Changelog:
v2: As pointed out by Benjamin Thery it only makes sense to call
device_rename in the initial network namespace for now.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
09 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Distributed Switch Architecture is a protocol for managing hardware
switch chips. It consists of a set of MII management registers and
commands to configure the switch, and an ethernet header format to
signal which of the ports of the switch a packet was received from
or is intended to be sent to.The switches that this driver supports are typically embedded in
access points and routers, and a typical setup with a DSA switch
looks something like this:+-----------+ +-----------+
| | RGMII | |
| +-------+ +------ 1000baseT MDI ("WAN")
| | | 6-port +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN1")
| CPU | | ethernet +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN2")
| |MIImgmt| switch +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN3")
| +-------+ w/5 PHYs +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN4")
| | | |
+-----------+ +-----------+The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate
network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software
link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface
accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to
the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters
via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces.This initial patch supports the MII management interface register
layout of the Marvell 88E6123, 88E6161 and 88E6165 switch chips, and
supports the "Ethertype DSA" packet tagging format.(There is no officially registered ethertype for the Ethertype DSA
packet format, so we just grab a random one. The ethertype to use
is programmed into the switch, and the switch driver uses the value
of ETH_P_EDSA for this, so this define can be changed at any time in
the future if the one we chose is allocated to another protocol or
if Ethertype DSA gets its own officially registered ethertype, and
everything will continue to work.)Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Byron Bradley
Tested-by: Tim Ellis
Tested-by: Peter van Valderen
Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Sep, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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Use "menuconfig" to make wireless support one-click selectable.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
30 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Use a menuconfig directive to make all of networking support one-click
deselectable from the top-level menu.Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Add small STP demux layer for demuxing STP PDUs based on MAC address.
This is needed to run both GARP and STP in parallel (or even load the
modules) since both use LLC_SAP_BSPAN.Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
