Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-26 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-07-26 08:45 On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Usually netlink is easily extendable by using nested TLVs. By hiding

Re: [E1000-devel] Re: drop counts

2005-07-26 Thread P
Jesse Brandeburg wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2.6.12 this changed to: packets = gprc dropped = mpc fifo = mpc missed = mpc I think there still is a problem. Notice that /proc/net/dev reports rx_dropped + rx_missed_errors for the drop column, and so will be double

Re: Patch: reduce skb input dev on 64 bit machines

2005-07-26 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2005-26-07 at 21:54 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But how can this possibly work for skb-dst'less packets (such as IPV4 ARP generated frames)? I think the answer is that it works by accident. But does it matter really? If say we close down

[Patch 2.6.12.2 1/2]netethtool: Add support for getting the permanent hardware address

2005-07-26 Thread Jon Wetzel
This patch addresses an issue in which hardware detection programs cannot correctly identify network cards due to their mutable MAC addresses stored in net_device struct. As an example, in a configuration with NIC team/bond, the MAC addresses in the dev_addr in net_device struct of the members of

Re: Patch: reduce skb input dev on 64 bit machines

2005-07-26 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
Hello! But how can this possibly work for skb-dst'less packets (such as IPV4 ARP generated frames)? Consider this as an implicit argument to functions passing skbs (that's why skb-dev can be killed btw). Caller is obliged to hold reference to the device, when doing dev_queue_xmit(). The way

Re: linux networking manpages

2005-07-26 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:24:02AM -0400, Harald Welte wrote: At the moment I'm mostly thinking about correcting those issues that I know off my head. Don't know whether I would find the time to systematically go through all of them.. Ok. Maybe someone else at netdev is interested. Also

RE: E1000 driver PHY reset bug on Dell 2800

2005-07-26 Thread Russell Johnson
If you could, please try the latest driver off of sourceforge at http://sf.net/projects/e1000, which will get us working off of the same source base. I'm going to try the latest driver you mentioned and let you know what happens. I checked out the latest driver as requested. It is

Re: Patch: reduce skb input dev on 64 bit machines

2005-07-26 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:09:19AM -0400, jamal wrote: I think the answer is that it works by accident. But does it matter really? If say we close down the device, do we want to be stopped from closing it until all the packets have been transmitted? We purge the qdiscs iirc already on

[PATCH] add new nfnetlink_queue subsystem

2005-07-26 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Dave! This is the layer3 independent rewrite of ip[6]_queue on top of nfnetlink. The patch is incremental to my latest 'move queue rerouting to nf_queue level' and 'multiqueue' patches I sent earlier today. Please apply to net-2.6.14, Thanks. -- - Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] fix nf_info_reroute() macro

2005-07-26 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Dave! This patch fixes the pointer calculation made by the nf_info_reroute() macro. Please apply on top of my other patches for net-2.6.14, thanks. -- - Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gnumonks.org/

Re: [2.6 patch] fix ip_conntrack_put prototype

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:56:59 +0200 The function is not inline. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks Adrian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] possible overflow of sock-sk_policy

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH] possible overflow of sock-sk_policy Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:07:14 +1000 Balazs Scheidler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While reading through the xfrm code I've found a possible array overflow in struct sock. Thanks for catching this.

Re: [PATCH] rename skb_ip_make_writable() to skb_make_writable()

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:20:53 +0200 Rename skb_ip_make_writable() to skb_make_writable() since there is nothing IPv4-specific in it. In fact, it was already used by IPv6, too... Upcoming nfnetlink_queue code will use it for any kind of packet.

Re: [PATCH] move ip[6]_queue rerouting up to nf_queue

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:45:05 +0200 please apply. If you dislike the yet-another-NPROTO nature of it, I'll prepare one with kmalloc-at-startup. Please do, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message

Re: [2.6 patch] NETCONSOLE must depend on INET

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:01:04PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:29:19 +0200 NETCONSOLE=y and INET=n results in the following compile error: Also applied, thanks Adrian. I should have been cc:ed on this. This problem also

Re: [PATCH] add netlink module refcounting

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:15:52 -0400 The attached patch adds support for refcounting of modules implementing netlink protocols. The idea is that you prevent the module from disappearing as long as someone in userspace has still a socket talking to you.

Re: [PATCH] move ip[6]_queue rerouting up to nf_queue

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:52:23 +0200 I'll also prepare a modified version of the nfnetlink module refcounting patch, but I'm not submitting it until you've applied ll of the other pending netfilter patches since they would conflict (re-attached the other

Re: [PATCH] move ip[6]_queue rerouting up to nf_queue

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:52:23 +0200 See attached file 12-queue-reroute.patch.2. All patches applied to net-2.6.14, thanks Harald. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [2.6 patch] NETCONSOLE must depend on INET

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Mackall
[sch added to cc: as I think he's the effective pktgen maintainer] On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:03:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: From: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:58:24 -0700 On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:32:02PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: More seriously,

Re: [2.6 patch] NETCONSOLE must depend on INET

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
From: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:36:37 -0700 [sch added to cc: as I think he's the effective pktgen maintainer] No, that would be Robert Olsson. Move in_aton from net/ipv4/utils.c to net/core/utils.c Fair enough. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

killing skb-h

2005-07-26 Thread David S. Miller
So people don't think that I'm doing nothing but sleeping today :-) I gave a shot yesterday and today to kill this off, but it really can't be done easily in one fell swoop, and there are real issues to resolve. So I'll work on this in stages. First I'll get rid of the most trivial uses of