* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (30 commits)
Blackfin serial driver: supporting BF548-EZKIT serial port
Video Console: Blackfin doesnt support VGA console
Blackfin arch: Add peripheral io API to gpio header file
Blackfin arch: set up gpio interrupt IRQ_PJ9 for BF54x ATAPI PATA driver
Blackfin arch: add missing CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS when upstream merging
Blackfin arch: as pointed out by Robert P. J. Day, update the CPU_FREQ name to match current Kconfig
Blackfin arch: extract the entry point from the linked kernel
Blackfin arch: clean up some coding style issues
Blackfin arch: combine the common code of free_initrd_mem and free_initmem
Blackfin arch: Add Support for Peripheral PortMux and resouce allocation
Blackfin arch: use PAGE_SIZE when doing aligns rather than hardcoded values
Blackfin arch: fix bug set dma_address properly in dma_map_sg
Blackfin arch: Disable CACHELINE_ALIGNED_L1 for BF54x by default
Blackfin arch: Port the dm9000 driver to Blackfin by using the correct low-level io routines
Blackfin arch: There is no CDPRIO Bit in the EBIU_AMGCTL Register of BF54x arch
Blackfin arch: scrub dead code
Blackfin arch: Fix Warning add some defines in BF54x header file
Blackfin arch: add BF54x missing GPIO access functions
Blackfin arch: Some memory and code optimizations - Fix SYS_IRQS
Blackfin arch: Enable BF54x PIN/GPIO interrupts
...
Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (26 commits)
i2c-rpx: Remove
i2c-mpc: work around missing-9th-clock-pulse bug
i2c: New PMC MSP71xx TWI bus driver
i2c-savage4: Delete many unused defines
i2c/tsl2550: Speed up initialization
i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules
i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+
i2c-i801: Various cleanups
i2c: Add support for the TSL2550
i2c-pxa: Support new-style I2C drivers
i2c-gpio: Make some internal functions static
i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients
i2c-iop3xx: Switch to static adapter numbering
i2c-sis5595: Resolve resource conflict with sis5595
matroxfb: Clean-up i2c header inclusions
i2c-nforce2: Add support for SMBus block transactions
i2c-mpc: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
i2c-mv64xxx: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700
i2c: New DS1682 chip driver
...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:58 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Remove old i386 setup code
This removes the old i386 setup code. This is done as a separate patch
to avoid breaking git bisect as some of the i386 code was also used by
the old x86-64 code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:56 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Use the new x86 setup code for i386
This patch hooks the new x86 setup code into the Makefile machinery. It
also adapts boot/tools/build.c to a two-file (as opposed to three-file)
universe, and simplifies it substantially.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:53 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Code for actual protected-mode entry
This is the code which actually does the switch to protected mode,
including all preparation. It is also responsible for invoking the
boot loader hooks, if present.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:52 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Video mode probing support for the new x86 setup code
Video mode probing for the new x86 setup code. This code breaks down
different drivers into modules. This code deliberately drops support
for a lot of the vendor-specific mode probing present in the assembly
version, since a lot of those probes have been found to be stale in
current versions of those chips -- frequently, support for those modes
have been dropped from recent video BIOSes due to space constraints,
but the video BIOS signatures are still the same.
However, additional drivers should be extremely straightforward to plug
in, if desirable.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:35 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Make struct boot_params a real structure, and remove obsolete fields
Make struct boot_params a real structure, and remove the handling of
some obsolete fields, in particular hd*_info, which was only used by
the ST-506 driver, and likely to be wrong for that driver on any
modern BIOS.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:33 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Define zero-page offset 0x1e4 as a scratch field, and use it
The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor
to determine its own location. It was using a location inside
struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch
instead.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:31 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Clean up struct screen_info (<linux/screen_info.h>)
struct screen_info has unaligned members, it needs to be packed.
In the process, fix the naming of some of the members, which don't
belong in this structure but are part of it anyway.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:29 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
Unify the CPU features vectors between i386 and x86-64
Unify the handling of the CPU features vectors between i386 and x86-64.
This also adopts the collapsing of features which are required at
compile-time into constant tests from x86-64 to i386.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:27 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
hd.c: remove BIOS/CMOS queries
An ST-506 disk these days is pretty much someone trying to pull ancient
data using an auxilliary controller. Pulling data from the BIOS or CMOS
is just plain wrong, since it's likely to be the primary OS disk... and
would be user-entered data anyway. Instead, require the user enters it
on the command line.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Domen Puncer [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:31 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c-mpc: work around missing-9th-clock-pulse bug
Work around a problem reported on:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2005-July/019038.html
Without this patch I2C on mpc5200 becomes unusable after a while.
Tested on mpc5200 boards by Matthias Fechner and me.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:31 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c/tsl2550: Speed up initialization
There's some redundancy in the tsl2550 initialization sequence. It is
powering up the device twice, and setting the operating mode twice
too. Setting things just once saves SMBus transactions, which aren't
always cheap, speeding up the device initialization.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+
Add an ability to utilize the internal SRAM buffer on ICH4
and newer host controllers to speed up execution of block operations.
I've split the code so that it is more clear which block transaction is
performed.
First of all the host controller's type is identified. isich4 is set when
we think that the controller has the internal buffer. Then, before every
block transaction, if isich4 is set, we attempt to enable the E32B bit in
SMBAUXCTL register.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Ryjkov <olegr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* Use defines instead of raw numbers for register bits
* Fix several wrong indentations and trailing whitespace
* Move hwpec timeout checking to a separate function
Signed-off-by: Oleg Ryjkov <olegr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Martin Michlmayr [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:30 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c-iop3xx: Switch to static adapter numbering
Update the IOP3xx I2C driver to use i2c_add_numbered_adapter(), so that
later patches can convert boards to using new-style drivers.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Tested-by: Voipio Riku <Riku.Voipio@movial.fi> Cc: Dan J Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:30 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c-sis5595: Resolve resource conflict with sis5595
Let the i2c-sis5595 driver release its PCI device after registering.
This is to allow the sis5595 hardware monitoring driver to also
access this PCI device. The same trick is already used in the
i2c-viapro and via686a drivers to let them both load.
Grant Likely [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:29 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c-mpc: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
Move the i2c-mpc driver over to using the new i2c infrastructure.
Specifically, it now uses i2c_add_numbered_adapter so that the bus number
can be determined ahead of time and used to register i2c clients before
the bus is instantiated.
Tested on an MPC5200 based board
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Convert the Marvell mv64xxx I2C driver to use the new i2c infrastructure,
by calling i2c_add_numbered_adapter(). This allows clients to be
registered before the bus is instantiated.
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:29 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c: Fix the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype
Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.
I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.
There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.
Jean Delvare [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:29 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
i2c: Deprecate legacy RTC drivers
We have a new RTC subsystem with better drivers.
Legacy driver status:
* ds1337: The DS1337 and DS1339 are now supported by the rtc-ds1307
driver, so it looks to me like we could even delete the ds1337
driver right away.
* ds1374: Will soon be replaced with Scott Wood's rtc-ds1374 driver.
* m41t00: The M41T00 is supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver. For the
M41T81 and M41T85, the rtc-m41t80 driver written by Atsushi Nemoto
should work.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Cc: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
Mike Frysinger [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:35:15 +0000 (14:35 +0800)]
Blackfin arch: as pointed out by Robert P. J. Day, update the CPU_FREQ name to match current Kconfig
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Alan Cox [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:22:27 +0000 (17:22 -0700)]
lots-of-architectures: enable arbitary speed tty support
Add the termios2 structure ready for enabling on most platforms. One or
two like Sparc are plain weird so have been left alone. Most can use the
same structure as ktermios for termios2 (ie the newer ioctl uses the
structure matching the current kernel structure)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelianov [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:22:26 +0000 (17:22 -0700)]
Make common helpers for seq_files that work with list_heads
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
This makes code about 300 lines smaller:
The first version of this patch made the helper functions static inline
in the seq_file.h header. This patch moves them to the fs/seq_file.c as
Andrew proposed. The vmlinux .text section sizes are as follows:
2.6.22-rc1-mm1: 0x001794d5
with the previous version: 0x00179505
with this patch: 0x00179135
The config file used was make allnoconfig with the "y" inclusion of all
the possible options to make the files modified by the patch compile plus
drivers I have on the test node.
This patch:
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Purdie [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:22:24 +0000 (17:22 -0700)]
Add LZO1X algorithm to the kernel
This is a hybrid version of the patch to add the LZO1X compression
algorithm to the kernel. Nitin and myself have merged the best parts of
the various patches to form this version which we're both happy with (and
are jointly signing off).
The performance of this version is equivalent to the original minilzo code
it was based on. Bytecode comparisons have also been made on ARM, i386 and
x86_64 with favourable results.
There are several users of LZO lined up including jffs2, crypto and reiser4
since its much faster than zlib.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
mmc: at91_mci: fix hanging and rework to match flowcharts
mmc: at91_mci typo
sdhci: Fix "Unexpected interrupt" handling
mmc: fix silly copy-and-paste error
mmc: move layer init and workqueue to core file
mmc: refactor host class handling
mmc: refactor bus operations
sdhci: add ene controller id
mmc: bounce requests for simple hosts
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (40 commits)
bonding/bond_main.c: make 2 functions static
ps3: gigabit ethernet driver for PS3, take3
[netdrvr] Fix dependencies for ax88796 ne2k clone driver
eHEA: Capability flag for DLPAR support
Remove sk98lin ethernet driver.
sunhme.c:quattro_pci_find() must be __devinit
bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master
atl1: remove write-only var in tx handler
macmace: use "unsigned long flags;"
Cleanup usbnet_probe() return value handling
netxen: deinline and sparse fix
eeprom_93cx6: shorten pulse timing to match spec (bis)
phylib: Add Marvell 88E1112 phy id
phylib: cleanup marvell.c a bit
AX88796 network driver
IOC3: Switch to pci refcounting safe APIs
e100: Fix Tyan motherboard e100 not receiving IPMI commands
QE Ethernet driver writes to wrong register to mask interrupts
rrunner.c:rr_init() must be __devinit
tokenring/3c359.c:xl_init() must be __devinit
...
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (32 commits)
[libata] sata_mv: print out additional chip info during probe
[libata] Use ATA_UDMAx standard masks when filling driver's udma_mask info
[libata] AHCI: Add support for Marvell AHCI-like chips (initially 6145)
[libata] Clean up driver udma_mask initializers
libata: Support chips with 64K PRD quirk
Add a PCI ID for santa rosa's PATA controller.
sata_sil24: sil24_interrupt() micro-optimisation
Add irq_flags to struct pata_platform_info
sata_promise: cleanups
[libata] pata_ixp4xx: kill unused var
ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming
[libata] ahci: minor internal cleanups
[ATA] Add named constant for ATAPI command DEVICE RESET
[libata] sata_sx4, sata_via: minor documentation updates
[libata] ahci: minor internal cleanups
[libata] ahci: Factor out SATA port init into a separate function
[libata] pata_sil680: minor cleanups from benh
[libata] sata_sx4: named constant cleanup
[libata] pata_ixp4xx: convert to new EH
[libata] pdc_adma: Reorder initializers with a couple structs
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] vmlogrdr function annotation.
[S390] s390: rename CPU_IDLE to S390_CPU_IDLE
[S390] cio: Remove prototype for non-existing function cmf_reset().
[S390] zcrypt: fix request timeout handling
[S390] system call optimization.
[S390] dasd: Avoid compile warnings on !CONFIG_DASD_PROFILE
[S390] Remove volatile from atomic_t
[S390] Program check in diag 210 under 31 bit
[S390] Bogomips calculation for 64 bit.
[S390] smp: Merge smp_count_cpus() and smp_get_save_areas().
[S390] zcore: Fix __user annotation.
[S390] fixed cdl-format detection.
[S390] sclp: Test facility list before executing a service call.
[S390] sclp: introduce some new interfaces.
[S390] Fixed comment typo.
[S390] vmcp cleanup
Merge branch 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
pipe: add documentation and comments
pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
Remove remnants of sendfile()
xip sendfile removal
splice: completely document external interface with kerneldoc
sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops
shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop
pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointer
splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header
splice: relay support
sendfile: convert nfsd to splice_direct_to_actor()
sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read()
loop: convert to using splice_direct_to_actor() instead of sendfile()
splice: add void cookie to the actor data
sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile()
sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()
sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user support
splice: abstract out actor data
Merge branch 'trivial-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'trivial-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
Documentation/block/barrier.txt is not in sync with the actual code: - blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different
Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() in the block device
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu",
block/Kconfig already has its own "menuconfig" so remove these
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once
cfq-iosched: fix async queue behaviour
unexport bio_{,un}map_user
Remove legacy CDROM drivers
[PATCH] fix request->cmd == INT cases
cciss: add new controller support for P700m
[PATCH] Remove acsi.c
[BLOCK] drop unnecessary bvec rewinding from flush_dry_bio_endio
[PATCH] cdrom_sysctl_info fix
blk_hw_contig_segment(): bad segment size checks
[TRIVIAL PATCH] Kill blk_congestion_wait() stub for !CONFIG_BLOCK
Adrian Bunk [Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:51:12 +0000 (11:51 -0700)]
bonding/bond_main.c: make 2 functions static
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Chad Tindel <ctindel@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This is the third submission of the network driver for PS3.
The differences from the previous one are:
- renamed source file names so that their prefix can match
with the module name
- added cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org line for MAINTAINER file
- changed some in copyright comments
If there are no more comments, please apply for 2.6.23.
Thank you
--
Subject: PS3: Ethernet driver
From: Masakazu Mokuno <mokuno@sm.sony.co.jp>
Add Gigabit Ethernet support for the PS3 game console. The module will
be called ps3_gelic.
Jay Vosburgh [Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:42:47 +0000 (10:42 -0700)]
bonding / ipv6: no addrconf for slaves separately from master
At present, when a device is enslaved to bonding, if ipv6 is
active then addrconf will be initated on the slave (because it is closed
then opened during the enslavement processing). This causes DAD and RS
packets to be sent from the slave. These packets in turn can confuse
switches that perform ipv6 snooping, causing them to incorrectly update
their forwarding tables (if, e.g., the slave being added is an inactve
backup that won't be used right away) and direct traffic away from the
active slave to a backup slave (where the incoming packets will be
dropped).
This patch alters the behavior so that addrconf will only run on
the master device itself. I believe this is logically correct, as it
prevents slaves from having an IPv6 identity independent from the
master. This is consistent with the IPv4 behavior for bonding.
This is accomplished by (a) having bonding set IFF_SLAVE sooner
in the enslavement processing than currently occurs (before open, not
after), and (b) having ipv6 addrconf ignore UP and CHANGE events on
slave devices.
The eql driver also uses the IFF_SLAVE flag. I inspected eql,
and I believe this change is reasonable for its usage of IFF_SLAVE, but
I did not test it.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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