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Herbert Xu
10cc2b50eb bridge: Fix RCU race in br_multicast_stop
Thanks to Paul McKenny for pointing out that it is incorrect to use
synchronize_rcu_bh to ensure that pending callbacks have completed.
Instead we should use rcu_barrier_bh.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-07 15:31:12 -08:00
Herbert Xu
49f5fcfd4a bridge: Use RCU list primitive in __br_mdb_ip_get
As Paul McKenney correctly pointed out, __br_mdb_ip_get needs
to use the RCU list walking primitive in order to work correctly
on platforms where data-dependency ordering is not guaranteed.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-07 15:31:12 -08:00
Dan Carpenter
02a780c014 bridge: cleanup: remove unneed check
We dereference "port" on the lines immediately before and immediately
after the test so port should hopefully never be null here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-07 15:25:49 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
1cd4efddc4 bridge: depends on INET
br_multicast calls ip_send_check(), so it should depend on INET.

built-in:
br_multicast.c:(.text+0x88cf4): undefined reference to `ip_send_check'

or modular:
ERROR: "ip_send_check" [net/bridge/bridge.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-03 01:23:22 -08:00
Sridhar Samudrala
85b3526932 bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled
Fix the following build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled.
In file included from net/bridge/br.c:24:
net/bridge/br_private.h: In function 'br_multicast_is_router':
net/bridge/br_private.h:361: error: 'struct net_bridge' has no member named 'multicast_router'
net/bridge/br_private.h:362: error: 'struct net_bridge' has no member named 'multicast_router'
net/bridge/br_private.h:363: error: 'struct net_bridge' has no member named 'multicast_router_timer'

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-02 03:05:04 -08:00
David S. Miller
024c378f0b bridge: Make IGMP snooping depend upon BRIDGE.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:51:42 -08:00
Herbert Xu
d902eee43f bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries
This patch allows the user to the IGMP parameters related to the
snooping function of the bridge.  This includes various time
values and retransmission limits.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:47 -08:00
Herbert Xu
b195167fcf bridge: Add hash elasticity/max sysfs entries
This patch allows the user to control the hash elasticity/max
parameters.  The elasticity setting does not take effect until
the next new multicast group is added.  At which point it is
checked and if after rehashing it still can't be satisfied then
snooping will be disabled.

The max setting on the other hand takes effect immediately.  It
must be a power of two and cannot be set to a value less than the
current number of multicast group entries.  This is the only way
to shrink the multicast hash.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:46 -08:00
Herbert Xu
561f1103a2 bridge: Add multicast_snooping sysfs toggle
This patch allows the user to disable IGMP snooping completely
through a sysfs toggle.  It also allows the user to reenable
snooping when it has been automatically disabled due to hash
collisions.  If the collisions have not been resolved however
the system will refuse to reenable snooping.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:46 -08:00
Herbert Xu
0909e11758 bridge: Add multicast_router sysfs entries
This patch allows the user to forcibly enable/disable ports as
having multicast routers attached.  A port with a multicast router
will receive all multicast traffic.

The value 0 disables it completely.  The default is 1 which lets
the system automatically detect the presence of routers (currently
this is limited to picking up queries), and 2 means that the port
will always receive all multicast traffic.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:45 -08:00
Herbert Xu
c4fcb78cf8 bridge: Add multicast data-path hooks
This patch finally hooks up the multicast snooping module to the
data path.  In particular, all multicast packets passing through
the bridge are fed into the module and switched by it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:45 -08:00
Herbert Xu
3fe2d7c70b bridge: Add multicast start/stop hooks
This patch hooks up the bridge start/stop and add/delete/disable
port functions to the new multicast module.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:38 -08:00
Herbert Xu
5cb5e947d8 bridge: Add multicast forwarding functions
This patch adds code to perform selective multicast forwarding.

We forward multicast traffic to a set of ports plus all multicast
router ports.  In order to avoid duplications among these two
sets of ports, we order all ports by the numeric value of their
pointers.  The two lists are then walked in lock-step to eliminate
duplicates.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:45 -08:00
Herbert Xu
eb1d164143 bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support
This patch adds the core functionality of IGMP snooping support
without actually hooking it up.  So this patch should be a no-op
as far as the bridge's external behaviour is concerned.

All the new code and data is controlled by the Kconfig option
BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING.  A run-time toggle is also available.

The multicast switching is done using an hash table that is
lockless on the read-side through RCU.  On the write-side the
new multicast_lock is used for all operations.  The hash table
supports dynamic growth/rehashing.

The hash table will be rehashed if any chain length exceeds a
preset limit.  If rehashing does not reduce the maximum chain
length then snooping will be disabled.

These features may be added in future (in no particular order):

* IGMPv3 source support
* Non-querier router detection
* IPv6

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:45 -08:00
Herbert Xu
025d89c27f bridge: Split may_deliver/deliver_clone out of br_flood
This patch moves the main loop body in br_flood into the function
may_deliver.  The code that clones an skb and delivers it is moved
into the deliver_clone function.

This allows this to be reused by the future multicast forward
function.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:44 -08:00
Herbert Xu
6088a539d8 bridge: Use BR_INPUT_SKB_CB on xmit path
this patch makes BR_INPUT_SKB_CB available on the xmit path so
that we could avoid passing the br pointer around for the purpose
of collecting device statistics.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:44 -08:00
Herbert Xu
b33084be19 bridge: Avoid unnecessary clone on forward path
When the packet is delivered to the local bridge device we may
end up cloning it unnecessarily if no bridge port can receive
the packet in br_flood.

This patch avoids this by moving the skb_clone into br_flood.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:43 -08:00
Herbert Xu
68b7c895be bridge: Allow tail-call on br_pass_frame_up
This patch allows tail-call on the call to br_pass_frame_up
in br_handle_frame_finish.  This is now possible because of the
previous patch to call br_pass_frame_up last.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:43 -08:00
Herbert Xu
87557c18ac bridge: Do br_pass_frame_up after other ports
At the moment we deliver to the local bridge port via the function
br_pass_frame_up before all other ports.  There is no requirement
for this.

For the purpose of IGMP snooping, it would be more convenient if
we did the local port last.  Therefore this patch rearranges the
bridge input processing so that the local bridge port gets to see
the packet last (if at all).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:42 -08:00
Florian Westphal
6e705f56a1 netfilter: ebtables: mark: add CONFIG_COMPAT support
Add the required handlers to convert 32 bit
ebtables mark match and match target structs to 64bit layout.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
2010-02-16 17:27:20 +01:00
Florian Westphal
314ddca3b1 netfilter: ebt_limit: add CONFIG_COMPAT support
ebt_limit structure is larger on 64 bit systems due
to "long" type used in the (kernel-only) data section.

Setting .compatsize is enough in this case, these values
have no meaning in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
2010-02-16 17:27:20 +01:00
Florian Westphal
90b89af7e1 netfilter: ebtables: try native set/getsockopt handlers, too
ebtables can be compiled to perform userspace-side padding of
structures. In that case, all the structures are already in the
'native' format expected by the kernel.

This tries to determine what format the userspace program is
using.

For most set/getsockopts, this can be done by checking
the len argument for sizeof(compat_ebt_replace) and
re-trying the native handler on error.

In case of EBT_SO_GET_ENTRIES, the native handler is tried first,
it will error out early when checking the *len argument
(the compat version has to defer this check until after
 iterating over the kernel data set once, to adjust for all
 the structure size differences).

As this would cause error printks, remove those as well, as
recommended by Bart de Schuymer.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2010-02-16 17:27:19 +01:00
Florian Westphal
81e675c227 netfilter: ebtables: add CONFIG_COMPAT support
Main code for 32 bit userland ebtables binary with 64 bit kernels
support.

Tested on x86_64 kernel only, using 64bit ebtables binary
for output comparision.

At least ebt_mark, m_mark and ebt_limit need CONFIG_COMPAT hooks, too.

remaining problem:

The ebtables userland makefile has:
ifeq ($(shell uname -m),sparc64)
	CFLAGS+=-DEBT_MIN_ALIGN=8 -DKERNEL_64_USERSPACE_32
endif

struct ebt_replace, ebt_entry_match etc. then contain userland-side
padding, i.e.  even if we are called from a 32 bit userland, the
structures may already be in the right format.

This problem is addressed in a follow-up patch.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
2010-02-16 17:27:19 +01:00
Florian Westphal
49facff9f9 netfilter: ebtables: split update_counters into two functions
allows to call do_update_counters() from upcoming CONFIG_COMPAT
code instead of copy&pasting the same code.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2010-02-16 17:27:05 +01:00
Florian Westphal
837395aa86 netfilter: ebtables: split copy_everything_to_user into two functions
once CONFIG_COMPAT support is added to ebtables, the new
copy_counters_to_user function can be called instead of duplicating
code.

Also remove last use of MEMPRINT, as requested by Bart De Schuymer.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2010-02-16 17:25:51 +01:00
Florian Westphal
e788759f44 netfilter: ebtables: split do_replace into two functions
once CONFIG_COMPAT support is merged this allows
to call do_replace_finish() after doing the CONFIG_COMPAT conversion
instead of copy & pasting this.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2010-02-16 17:25:21 +01:00
Florian Westphal
fc0e3df4f0 netfilter: ebtables: avoid explicit XT_ALIGN() in match/targets
This will cause trouble once CONFIG_COMPAT support is added to ebtables.
xt_compat_*_offset() calculate the kernel/userland structure size delta
using:

XT_ALIGN(size) - COMPAT_XT_ALIGN(size)

If the match/target sizes are aligned at registration time,
delta is always zero.

Should have zero effect for existing systems: xtables uses
XT_ALIGN() whenever it deals with match/target sizes.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-15 18:16:26 +01:00
Florian Westphal
1756de262e netfilter: ebtables: abort if next_offset is too small
next_offset must be > 0, otherwise this loops forever.
The offset also contains the size of the ebt_entry structure
itself, so anything smaller is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-15 18:15:55 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
d5d1baa15f netfilter: xtables: add const qualifiers
This should make it easier to remove redundant arguments later.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-15 16:59:29 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
9ab99d5a43 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-10 14:17:10 +01:00
Herbert Xu
570930fe1e bridge: Remove unused age_list
This patch removes the unused age_list member from the net_bridge
structure.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04 20:28:48 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
add6746124 netfilter: add struct net * to target parameters
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-03 13:45:12 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f54e9367f8 netfilter: xtables: add struct xt_mtdtor_param::net
Add ->net to match destructor list like ->net in constructor list.

Make sure it's set in ebtables/iptables/ip6tables, this requires to
propagate netns up to *_unregister_table().

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-18 08:25:47 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a83d8e8d09 netfilter: xtables: add struct xt_mtchk_param::net
Some complex match modules (like xt_hashlimit/xt_recent) want netns
information at constructor and destructor time. We propably can play
games at match destruction time, because netns can be passed in object,
but I think it's cleaner to explicitly pass netns.

Add ->net, make sure it's set from ebtables/iptables/ip6tables code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-18 08:21:13 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
2c8c1e7297 net: spread __net_init, __net_exit
__net_init/__net_exit are apparently not going away, so use them
to full extent.

In some cases __net_init was removed, because it was called from
__net_exit code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
Florian Westphal
dce766af54 netfilter: ebtables: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN
normal users are currently allowed to set/modify ebtables rules.
Restrict it to processes with CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Note that this cannot be reproduced with unmodified ebtables binary
because it uses SOCK_RAW.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-08 17:31:24 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
d7fc02c7ba 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: (1815 commits)
  mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
  iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
  iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
  iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
  iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
  iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
  b43: fix two warnings
  ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
  cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
  iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
  mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
  ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
  airo: Fix integer overflow warning
  rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
  WE: Fix set events not propagated
  b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
  b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
  tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
  ...

Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
	kernel/sysctl_check.c
	net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
	net/sctp/sysctl.c
2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
Joe Perches
f64f9e7192 net: Move && and || to end of previous line
Not including net/atm/

Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only
Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-29 16:55:45 -08:00
Johannes Berg
ad4bb6f888 cfg80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface
(in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it
doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11
networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such
need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't
help here. The wireless address format used for these
links has only space for three addresses, the
 * transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin)
 * receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in
   the case of managed mode
 * the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local
   network segment

In an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient
must match and the third address is used as the BSSID.

To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a
wireless interface to a bridge.

Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP
and client side that can be used (after negotiating that
it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting
up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19 11:08:54 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
bb9074ff58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7'
Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
2009-11-17 01:01:34 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
f8572d8f2a sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
David S. Miller
230f9bb701 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c

All CDC ethernet devices of type USB_CLASS_COMM need to use
'&mbm_info'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 00:55:55 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
31ef30c760 bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if()
add_del_if() is called with RTNL, we can use __dev_get_by_index()
instead of [dev_get_by_index() + dev_put()]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 22:34:16 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
1056bd5167 bridge: prevent bridging wrong device
The bridge code assumes ethernet addressing, so be more strict in
the what is allowed. This showed up when GRE had a bug and was not
using correct address format.

Add some more comments for increased clarity.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 20:46:52 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
8c56ba0530 bridge: Optimize multiple unregistration
Speedup module unloading by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:13:48 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
72dad218f8 bridge: Allow enable/disable UFO on bridge device via ethtool
Allow enable/disable UFO on bridge device via ethtool

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 22:00:24 -07:00
Jeff Hansen
30df94f800 bridge: Fix double-free in br_add_if.
There is a potential double-kfree in net/bridge/br_if.c.  If br_fdb_insert
fails, then the kobject is put back (which calls kfree due to the kobject
release), and then kfree is called again on the net_bridge_port.  This
patch fixes the crash.

Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for the one-line fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-28 12:54:25 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Marcel Holtmann
384912ed19 net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
David S. Miller
9a0da0d19c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-09-10 18:17:09 -07:00