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Jeff Kirsher
da8c01c450 e1000e.txt: Add e1000e documentation
Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:28:07 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
2bff89c3f3 e1000.txt: Update e1000 documentation
Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:27:31 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
c4b8c01112 ixgbevf.txt: Update ixgbevf documentation
Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual
function driver).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05 13:27:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
79872e07ab Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt: deleted, not in tree
Commit 1d794e3b35 ("Staging: wavelan: delete the driver") removed the
source, so remove the documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f6cec0ae58 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (59 commits)
  igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation
  igb.txt: Add igb documentation
  e100/e1000*/igb*/ixgb*: Add missing read memory barrier
  ixgbe: fix build error with FCOE_CONFIG without DCB_CONFIG
  netxen: protect tx timeout recovery by rtnl lock
  isdn: gigaset: use after free
  isdn: gigaset: add missing unlock
  solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling
  pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops
  net: disable preemption before call smp_processor_id()
  tcp: no md5sig option size check bug
  iwlwifi: fix locking assertions
  iwlwifi: fix TX tracer
  isdn: fix information leak
  net: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path
  usbnet: remove noisy and hardly useful printk
  rtl8180: avoid potential NULL deref in rtl8180_beacon_work
  ath9k: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS list
  libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given
  libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates
  ...
2010-08-09 21:05:52 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
c4e9b56e24 igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation
Adds documentation for the igbvf (igb virtual function driver).

  v2:
   - Removed trailing white space
   - Removed Ethtool version info

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-08 20:03:15 -07:00
Jeff Kirsher
b55c52b193 igb.txt: Add igb documentation
Add documentation for the igb networking driver.

  v2:
   - Removed trailing white space
   - Removed Ethtool version info
   - Removed LRO kernel version info

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-08 20:02:45 -07:00
David Howells
ff9517a687 DNS: Fixes for the DNS query module
Fixes for the DNS query module, including:

 (1) Use 'negative' instead of '-ve' in the documentation.

 (2) Mark the kdoc comment with '/**' on dns_query().

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-06 02:26:27 +00:00
Wang Lei
1a4240f476 DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code
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 "[<type>:]<domain_name>".  The optional <type>
indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required.  The
<domain_name> is the query to be made.

If <type> 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 <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-05 17:17:51 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
3cfc2c42c1 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: update broken web addresses.
  fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
  hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment
  Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
  Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
  fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace
  Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE
  scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE
  synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE
  block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE
  comment typo fixes: charater => character
  fix comment typos concerning "challenge"
  arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc
  reiserfs: typo comment fix
  update email address
  ...
2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock
0ea6e61122 Documentation: update broken web addresses.
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Sjur Braendeland
529d6dad5b caif-driver: Add CAIF-SPI Protocol driver.
This patch introduces the CAIF SPI Protocol Driver for
CAIF Link Layer.

This driver implements a platform driver to accommodate for a
platform specific SPI device. A general platform driver is not
possible as there are no SPI Slave side Kernel API defined.
A sample CAIF SPI Platform device can be found in
.../Documentation/networking/caif/spi_porting.txt

Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-29 00:08:21 -07:00
David S. Miller
bb9c03d8a6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-06-17 14:19:06 -07:00
ubuntu@tjworld.net
c086abae5b ipw2200: Enable LED by default
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21367

Enable LED by default and update the MODULE_PARM_DESC.  The original
reason for defaulting to disabled was documented in 2005 and noted, "The
LED code has been reported to hang some systems when running ifconfig
and is therefore disabled by default."  This no longer appears
applicable and users have been requesting this be enabled for several
years.

Signed-off-by: TJ <ubuntu@tjworld.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:58:57 -04:00
Daniel Turull
43d28b6515 pktgen: increasing transmission granularity
This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen.
The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it
was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay).
Now any rate is possible.

Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second.

The documentation has been updated.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-11 18:37:09 -07:00
Andy Gospodarek
bb1d912323 bonding: allow user-controlled output slave selection
v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes
from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on
multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver.

This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for
round-robin and active-backup bonding.  Similar functionality was
discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a
feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a
completely new mode.  Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding
some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a
design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks.
Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of
this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when
considering a multi-switch environment.

Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does
require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting
the 'all_slaves_active' flag.  This will allow reception of unicast traffic on
any of the backup interfaces.

This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters
with good results.

More information as well as a configuration example is available in the
patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-05 02:23:17 -07:00
Scott McMillan
614f60fa9d packet_mmap: expose hw packet timestamps to network packet capture utilities
This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet
timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by
packet_mmap.

PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
SO_TIMESTAMPING.  However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by
PACKET_TIMESTAMP.  SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.

If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside
the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was
added).

Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02 05:53:56 -07:00
Ian Campbell
3f8dc2362f arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option is enabled
This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation
currently suggests.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-31 00:24:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f8965467f3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* 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
2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
Amerigo Wang
e3826f1e94 net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
(Dropped the infiniband part, because Tetsuo modified the related code,
I will send a separate patch for it once this is accepted.)

This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.

The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
(e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
port allocation behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:28:40 -07:00
Francis Galiegue
a33f32244d Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.

Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
andrew hendry
e904f0a416 X25: Update X25 interface documentation
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22 16:12:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Patrick Loschmidt
69298698c2 net: corrected documentation for hardware time stamping
The current documentation for hardware time stamping does not
correctly specify the available kernel functions since the
implementation was changed later on.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Loschmidt <Patrick.Loschmidt@oeaw.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-07 21:52:07 -07:00
David S. Miller
4a35ecf8bf Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
	drivers/net/via-velocity.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
2010-04-06 23:53:30 -07:00
James Chapman
2f77a3f50c l2tp: Update documentation
This patch adds documentation about the L2TPv3 functionality.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:56:08 -07:00
Giuseppe CAVALLARO
a1d6f3f655 stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
Add Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt for the
stmmac network driver.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 17:26:00 -07:00
Sjur Braendeland
edc7616c30 net-caif: add CAIF documentation
Documentation of the CAIF Protocol.

Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30 19:08:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
4961e02f19 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-03-15 16:23:54 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
f28f9e43b3 timestamping: fix example build
Fix Makefiles so that Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
will build when using the CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC kconfig option.
(timestamping.c does not build currently with its simple Makefile.)

Also fix printf format warnings.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-15 16:00:46 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7f5b09c15a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (220 commits)
  USB: backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration failure handling
  USB: pl2303: remove unnecessary reset of usb_device in urbs
  USB: ftdi_sio: remove obsolete check in unthrottle
  USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused tx_bytes counter
  USB: qcaux: driver for auxiliary serial ports on Qualcomm devices
  USB: pl2303: initial TIOCGSERIAL support
  USB: option: add Longcheer/Longsung vendor ID
  USB: fix I2C API usage in ohci-pnx4008.
  USB: usbmon: mask seconds properly in text API
  USB: sisusbvga: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
  USB: storage: onetouch: unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
  USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id
  USB: remove references to port->port.count from the serial drivers
  USB: tty: Prune uses of tty_request_room in the USB layer
  USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag
  USB: don't read past config->interface[] if usb_control_msg() fails in usb_reset_configuration()
  USB: tty: kill request_room for USB ACM class
  USB: tty: sort out the request_room handling for whiteheat
  USB: storage: fix misplaced parenthesis
  USB: vstusb.c: removal of driver for Vernier Software & Technology, Inc., devices and spectrometers
  ...
2010-03-03 08:48:58 -08:00
Simon Arlott
817db5b34e USB: cxacru: remove cxacru-cf.bin loader
This has never worked properly because wsize passed to
cxacru_cm() is incorrectly set to the number of values
instead of the data bytes. The maximum number of values
that can be set at once is 7 which means the device will
not get enough data to work with and none of the
configuration values will be used.

At least one existing cxacru-cf.bin file contains invalid
data which will prevent the modem from syncing properly.

Fixing it is likely to break existing systems, and the
new sysfs interface for setting configuration parameters
can provide the same functionality. A script is provided
to convert from the original format.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-02 14:53:01 -08:00
Simon Arlott
4ac37208e9 USB: cxacru: add write-only sysfs attribute for modem configuration
The modem can be configured using CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_SET,
although CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_GET does not return any data.

Tested by setting the modulation (0x0a) option.

There is a list of parameters in the following archive,
but the meaning of many of them is not well documented:
  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=301825

This source also indicates that the highest parameter set
is 0x4a but this varies by model so an arbitrary limit of
0x7f has been used (the index is a 32-bit integer).

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-02 14:53:01 -08:00
Simon Arlott
1bfbd283cd USB: cxacru: return an empty value for modulation if there is no connection
When there is no connection, return an empty string
instead of "0" for the connection modulation.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-02 14:52:57 -08:00
David S. Miller
0448873480 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-25 23:22:42 -08:00
Brian Haley
e79dc48431 IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description
>> for max_addresses:
>> max_addresses - INTEGER
>>         Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
>>         It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
>>         be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
>>         autoconfigured addresses.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state
>> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to
>> auto-configuration.

It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious.

More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-23 01:25:00 -08:00
Andreas Petlund
7e38017557 net: TCP thin dupack
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for
TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce
latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast
retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:09 -08:00
Andreas Petlund
36e31b0af5 net: TCP thin linear timeouts
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the
stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies
that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear
timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:08 -08:00
Andreas Petlund
5aa4b32fc8 net: TCP thin-stream detection
Inline function to dynamically detect thin streams based on
the number of packets in flight. Used to dynamically trigger
thin-stream mechanisms if enabled by ioctl or sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:07 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
69a6a0b38a dccp: allow probing of CCID-array length
This fixes a problem in the DCCP getsockopt() API: currently there is no way
for a user to a priori know the number of built-in CCIDs, other than trying
DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS in a loop, incrementing the option length until
EINVAL is no longer returned.

This patch truncates the array to the user-provided length. No copy is made
when the length is <= 0.

Due to the length restriction in do_dccp_getsockopt() to sizeof(int), the
minimum array length remains 4, which is a reasonable default (only 3
CCIDs, CCID-2..4, are currently defined).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-12 11:47:00 -08:00
Daniel Mack
3ad2f3fbb9 tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-09 11:13:56 +01:00
David S. Miller
889b8f964f packet: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP.
Early on this was an experimental facility that few
people other than Alexey Kuznetsov played with.

Now it's a pretty fundamental thing and as people add
more features to AF_PACKET sockets this config options
creates ifdef spaghetti.

So kill it off.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-05 16:29:48 -08:00
Ali Gholami Rudi
fe9a230223 doc: fix checking socket() in net tstamp example
Signed-off-by: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir>
Acked-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-04 11:55:46 +01:00
David S. Miller
51c24aaaca Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-23 00:31:06 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
6d955180b2 ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP
If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow
creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP.

Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update
existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for
the first packet of a stream.

This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache
entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache
entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-19 02:12:34 -08:00
Ben Hutchings
aa4e2e1713 Documentation/3c509: document ethtool support
3c509 was changed to support ethtool in 2002, making the 'xcvr' module
parameter obsolete in most cases.  More recently 3c509 was converted
to the modern driver model and this parameter was removed.  Fix the
documentation to refer to ethtool rather than the module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-11 15:53:45 -08:00
Greg Rose
ecc6703cbb ixgbevf: Kconfig, Makefile and Documentation
Modifications for the Kconfig and network device Makefile to add the ixgbevf
driver module to the kernel plus basic driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-10 13:34:23 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
65324144b5 net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support
This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router.  As
described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.

This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).

Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan":
  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan

This switch technology is known by different vendor names:
 - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
 - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
 - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
 - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07 00:59:09 -08:00
John W. Linville
3b377ea9d4 wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database
This patch provides infrastructure for machine translation of the
regulatory rules database used by CRDA into a C data structure.
It includes code for searching that database as an alternative
to dynamic regulatory rules updates via CRDA.  Most people should
use CRDA instead of this infrastructure, but it provides a better
alternative than the WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY infrastructure (which
can now be removed).

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00