linux/net/Makefile, branch v3.9

VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets

2013-02-11T00:41:08Z

VM Sockets allows communication between virtual machines and the hypervisor. User level applications both in a virtual machine and on the host can use the VM Sockets API, which facilitates fast and efficient communication between guest virtual machines and their host. A socket address family, designed to be compatible with UDP and TCP at the interface level, is provided. Today, VM Sockets is used by various VMware Tools components inside the guest for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services. In addition to this, VMware's users are using VM Sockets for various applications, where network access of the virtual machine is restricted or non-existent. Examples of this are VMs communicating with device proxies for proprietary hardware running as host applications and automated testing of applications running within virtual machines. The VMware VM Sockets are similar to other socket types, like Berkeley UNIX socket interface. The VM Sockets module supports both connection-oriented stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless datagram sockets like UDP. The VM Sockets protocol family is defined as "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations split for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM. For additional information about the use of VM Sockets, please refer to the VM Sockets Programming Guide available at: https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/ Signed-off-by: George Zhang Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Andy king Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wanrouter: completely decouple obsolete code from kernel.

2013-02-01T00:20:33Z

The original suggestion to delete wanrouter started earlier with the mainline commit f0d1b3c2bcc5de8a17af5f2274f7fcde8292b5fc ("net/wanrouter: Deprecate and schedule for removal") in May 2012. More importantly, Dan Carpenter found[1] that the driver had a fundamental breakage introduced back in 2008, with commit 7be6065b39c3 ("netdevice wanrouter: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv"). So we know with certainty that the code hasn't been used by anyone willing to at least take the effort to send an e-mail report of breakage for at least 4 years. This commit does a decouple of the wanrouter subsystem, by going after the Makefile/Kconfig and similar files, so that these mainline files that we are keeping do not have the big wanrouter file/driver deletion commit tied into their history. Once this commit is in place, we then can remove the obsolete cyclomx drivers and similar that have a dependency on CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER_DRIVERS. [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg218670.html Originally-by: Joe Perches Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol

2012-05-18T05:35:08Z

More spring cleaning! The ancient Econet protocol should go. Most of the bug fixes in recent years have been fixing security vulnerabilities. The hardware hasn't been made since the 90s, it is only interesting as an archeological curiosity. For the truly curious, or insomniac, go read up on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econet Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac802154: allocation of ieee802154 device

2012-05-16T19:16:35Z

An interface to allocate and register ieee802154 compatible device. The allocated device has the following representation in memory: +-----------------------+ | struct wpan_phy | +-----------------------+ | struct mac802154_priv | +-----------------------+ | driver's private data | +-----------------------+ Used by device drivers to register new instance in the stack. Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

2011-12-03T17:35:17Z

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

NFC: add nfc subsystem core

2011-07-05T19:26:57Z

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

net: Enter net/ipv6/ even if CONFIG_IPV6=n

2011-03-07T20:50:52Z

exthdrs_core.c and addrconf_core.c in net/ipv6/ contain bits which must be made available even if IPv6 is disabled. net/ipv6/Makefile already correctly includes them if CONFIG_IPV6=n but net/Makefile prevents entering the subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol

2010-12-16T21:44:24Z

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

ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system

2010-10-20T22:37:28Z

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

DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code

2010-08-05T17:17:51Z

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