linux.git/net/Kconfig, branch v2.6.29

net: Move config NET_NS to from net/Kconfig to init/Kconfig

2009-01-26T20:25:55+00:00

Make NET_NS available underneath the generic Namespaces config option
since all of the other namespace options are there.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wimax: Makefile, Kconfig and docbook linkage for the stack

2009-01-07T18:00:17+00:00

This patch provides Makefile and KConfig for the WiMAX stack,
integrating them into the networking stack's Makefile, Kconfig and
doc-book templates.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/ieee80211 -> drivers/net/ipw2x00/libipw_* rename

2008-11-21T16:08:18+00:00

The old ieee80211 code only remains as a support library for the ipw2100
and ipw2200 drivers.  So, move the code and rename it appropriately to
reflects it's true purpose and status.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driver

2008-11-21T04:52:10+00:00

This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe
driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the
kernel.  The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) -
which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic
based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) -
which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at
granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdev: network device operations infrastructure

2008-11-20T05:32:24+00:00

This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.

This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.

After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.

Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
  it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
  consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2

2008-10-28T00:51:47+00:00

To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
compiled and run at the same time.  To do this only
virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
in the kobject tree.

Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
hardware wise that needs device management there should
be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
by implication sysfs.  The gain in ease of testing
and code coverage should be significant.

Changelog:

v2: As pointed out by Benjamin Thery it only makes sense to call
    device_rename in the initial network namespace for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery 
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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