linux.git/drivers/net/meth.c, branch v2.6.23

Don't use GFP_DMA for zone allocation.

2007-08-25T06:30:59+00:00

IP32 doesn't even have a ZONE_DMA so no point in using GFP_DMA in any
IP32-specific device driver.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

meth driver renovation

2007-05-24T21:20:49+00:00

The meth ethernet driver for the SGI IP32 aka O2 is so far still an old
style driver which does not use the device driver model.  This is now
causing issues with some udev based gadgetry in debian-stable.  Fixed by
converting the meth driver to a platform device.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 

--
Fixes since previous patch:

  o Fixed typo in meth_exit_module()
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}

2007-04-26T05:28:23+00:00

To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans

2007-04-26T05:24:30+00:00

One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Convert meth to netdev_priv

2007-02-17T20:30:47+00:00

And while at it loose plenty of useless casts.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h

2006-12-03T05:22:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace

2006-09-13T17:24:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM

2006-03-25T16:22:52+00:00

MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused.  It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds