linux/drivers/net/macb.c, branch v3.0.79

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2011-05-23T16:12:26Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...

Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel

2011-05-18T21:24:50Z

Haavard's e-mail address at Atmel is no longer valid. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

macb: Add rx overrun counter

2011-04-13T18:50:08Z

Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: Remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag from network drivers

2011-03-31T05:28:14Z

The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag is marked as deprecated and will be removed. Every input point to the kernel's entropy pool have to better document the type of entropy source it is. drivers/char/random.c now implements a set of interfaces that can be used for devices to collect enviromental noise. IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM will be replaced with these add_*_randomness exported functions. Network drivers are not a good source of entropy. They use as a source of entropy essentially a remote host. Which means that the source of entropy can be potentially controlled by an attacker. Also, with heavy workloads the entropy decreases due to less hardware interrupts happening thanks to irq mitigation and NAPI. If a system relies in its network interface as a entropy source it has a false sense of security. Systems that don't have devices whose drivers are good sources of entropy, should either use a hardware random number generator or feed the kernel's entropy pool from userspace using other sources of entropy such as EGD, video_entropyd, timer_entropyd and audio-entropyd. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

macb: don't use platform_set_drvdata() on a net_device

2011-02-28T20:22:20Z

Commit 71d6429 (Driver core: convert platform_{get,set}_drvdata to static inline functions) now triggers a warning in the macb network driver: CC drivers/net/macb.o drivers/net/macb.c: In function ‘macb_mii_init’: drivers/net/macb.c:263: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘platform_set_drvdata’ from incompatible pointer type include/linux/platform_device.h:138: note: expected ‘struct platform_device *’ but argument is of type ‘struct net_device *’ Use dev_set_drvdata() on the device embedded in the net_device instead. Cc: Nicolas Ferre Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

macb: Don't re-enable interrupts while in polling mode

2010-10-25T19:14:11Z

On a busy network, the macb driver could get stuck in the interrupt handler, quickly triggering the watchdog, due to a confluence of factors: 1. macb_poll re-enables interrupts unconditionally, even when it will be called again because it exhausted its rx budget 2. macb_interrupt only disables interrupts after scheduling macb_poll, but scheduling fails when macb_poll is already scheduled because it didn't call napi_complete 3. macb_interrupt loops until the interrupt status register is clear, which will never happen in this case if the driver doesn't disable the RX interrupt Since macb_interrupt runs in interrupt context, this effectively locks up the machine, triggering the hardware watchdog. This issue was readily reproducible on a flooded network with a modified 2.6.27.48 kernel. The same problem appears to still be in the 2.6.36-rc8 driver code, so I am submitting this patch against that version. I have not tested this version of the patch except to make sure the kernel compiles. Signed-off-by: Joshua Hoke Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: avoid some skb->ip_summed initializations

2010-09-03T02:06:22Z

fresh skbs have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_NONE (0) We can avoid setting again skb->ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE in drivers. Introduce skb_checksum_none_assert() helper so that we keep this assertion documented in driver sources. Change most occurrences of : skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE; by : skb_checksum_none_assert(skb); Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl().

2010-07-19T02:15:25Z

The phy_mii_ioctl() function unnecessarily throws away the original ifreq. We need access to the ifreq in order to support PHYs that can perform hardware time stamping. Two maverick drivers filter the ioctl commands passed to phy_mii_ioctl(). This is unnecessary since phylib will check the command in any case. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: trans_start cleanups

2010-05-10T12:01:31Z

Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss (on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler. Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

macb: allow reception of large (>1518 bytes) frames

2010-04-08T04:53:41Z

Enable BIG bit in the network configuration register, so the MAC doesn't reject big frames (E.G. when vlans are used). Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard Signed-off-by: David S. Miller