linux.git/net/Kconfig, branch v2.6.28

net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support

2008-10-09T00:15:19+00:00

Distributed Switch Architecture is a protocol for managing hardware
switch chips.  It consists of a set of MII management registers and
commands to configure the switch, and an ethernet header format to
signal which of the ports of the switch a packet was received from
or is intended to be sent to.

The switches that this driver supports are typically embedded in
access points and routers, and a typical setup with a DSA switch
looks something like this:

	+-----------+       +-----------+
	|           | RGMII |           |
	|           +-------+           +------ 1000baseT MDI ("WAN")
	|           |       |  6-port   +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN1")
	|    CPU    |       |  ethernet +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN2")
	|           |MIImgmt|  switch   +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN3")
	|           +-------+  w/5 PHYs +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN4")
	|           |       |           |
	+-----------+       +-----------+

The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate
network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software
link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface
accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to
the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters
via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces.

This initial patch supports the MII management interface register
layout of the Marvell 88E6123, 88E6161 and 88E6165 switch chips, and
supports the "Ethertype DSA" packet tagging format.

(There is no officially registered ethertype for the Ethertype DSA
packet format, so we just grab a random one.  The ethertype to use
is programmed into the switch, and the switch driver uses the value
of ETH_P_EDSA for this, so this define can be changed at any time in
the future if the one we chose is allocated to another protocol or
if Ethertype DSA gets its own officially registered ethertype, and
everything will continue to work.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek 
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Tested-by: Byron Bradley 
Tested-by: Tim Ellis 
Tested-by: Peter van Valderen 
Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Phonet: add CONFIG_PHONET

2008-09-23T03:03:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

WIRELESS: Make wireless one-click selectable.

2008-08-22T20:29:50+00:00

Use "menuconfig" to make wireless support one-click selectable.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

net: Make "networking" one-click deselectable.

2008-07-30T10:27:53+00:00

Use a menuconfig directive to make all of networking support one-click
deselectable from the top-level menu.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add STP demux layer

2008-07-06T04:25:39+00:00

Add small STP demux layer for demuxing STP PDUs based on MAC address.
This is needed to run both GARP and STP in parallel (or even load the
modules) since both use LLC_SAP_BSPAN.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPV4]: Fix size description of CONFIG_INET.

2008-03-04T06:18:22+00:00

CONFIG_INET now enlarges about 400KB, not 140KB.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

namespaces: mark NET_NS with "depends on NAMESPACES"

2008-02-08T17:22:23+00:00

There's already an option controlling the net namespaces cloning code, so make
it work the same way as all the other namespaces' options.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Cedric Le Goater 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NETFILTER]: Add CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED option

2008-01-28T22:59:12+00:00

The NETFILTER_ADVANCED option hides lots of the rather obscure netfilter
options when disabled and provides defaults (M) that should allow to
run a distribution firewall without further thinking.

Defaults to 'y' to avoid breaking current configurations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[CAN]: Add PF_CAN core module

2008-01-28T22:54:10+00:00

This patch adds the CAN core functionality but no protocols or drivers.
No protocol implementations are included here.  They come as separate
patches.  Protocol numbers are already in include/linux/can.h.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.

2007-10-10T23:52:46+00:00

This patch allows you to create a new network namespace
using sys_clone, or sys_unshare.

As the network namespace is still experimental and under development
clone and unshare support is only made available when CONFIG_NET_NS is
selected at compile time.

As this patch introduces network namespace support into code paths
that exist when the CONFIG_NET is not selected there are a few
additions made to net_namespace.h to allow a few more functions
to be used when the networking stack is not compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller