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2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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 <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-10[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix PPC machine checks and match loopback gain specsLarry Finger
The specifications for loopback_gain calculation and for G PHY initialization have been updated. This patch implements them and fixes a machine check error that occurs for PPC architecture with a phy->rev of 1. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-10[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix 802.11b/g scan limits to match regulatory reqsLarry Finger
In 802.11b/g mode, bcm43xx actively scans channels 1-14 no matter what locale has been set, either in the sprom or by the locale option. This behaviorviolates regulatory rules everywhere in the world except Japan. This patch changes the default range to the correct value if the locale has been set, and to channels 1-13 if no locale has been set. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-27[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix machine check on PPC for version 1 PHYDavid Woodhouse
Recent changes in the specs that were introduced in commit 740ac4fb08866d702be90f167665d03759bd27d0 were incorrect and resulted in machine check errors on the PPC architecture for G PHY's with a revision number equal to 1. The two offending changes are reverted. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-27[PATCH] bcm43xx: fix radio_set_tx_iqStefano Brivio
Fix a duplicated leftshift in bcm43xx_radio_set_tx_iq. data_high values are already leftshifted. Thanks to Michael Buesch for spotting this. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-27[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for confusion between PHY revision and PHY versionLarry Finger
There are several places where the PHY version and revision were interchanged. These are changed in the specifications on 2/13/07 and now use "analog" instead instead of "version" to help reduce confusion. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-16[PATCH] bcm43xx: MANUALWLAN fixesLarry Finger
During testing of bcm43xx interference mitigation, two problems were discovered: (1) When the MANUALWLAN mode was set, routines _stack_save and _stack_restore generated assertions that were traced to saving ILT registers with addresses > 0xFFF. This problem was fixed by adding one bit to the field used for the offset, and subtracting one bit from the space used for the id. (2) In MANUALWLAN mode, the IRQ XMIT errors are generated. The cause of these errors has not yet been located. Any suggestions on debugging this problem would be greatly appreciated. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix assertion failures in interrupt handlerPavel Roskin
In the bcm43xx interrupt handler, sanity checks are wrongly done before the verification that the interrupt is for the bcm43xx. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix bug in frequency to channel conversionJoerg Sommer
The frequency to channel routine in bcm43xx requires that the frequency be in MHz, but that condition is not always met. This patch does the necessary conversion. Signed-off-by: Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix errors in specs to code translation in B6PHY initLarry Finger
There are three errors in the transcription of the latest revision to the B6PHY init specifications. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-27[PATCH] bcm43xx: fix for 4309Stefano Brivio
BCM4309 devices aren't working properly as A PHYs aren't supported yet, but we probe 802.11a cores anyway. This fixes it, while still allowing for A PHY code to be developed in the future. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-17Merge branch 'upstream' into upstream-jgarzikJohn W. Linville
Conflicts: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
2007-02-17Merge branch 'master' into upstreamJeff Garzik
2007-02-17Merge branch 'gfar' of ↵Jeff Garzik
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into upstream
2007-02-14[PATCH] bcm43xx: OFDM fix for rev 1 cardsLarry Finger
Nearly all of the writes to the bcm43xx internal lookup tables (ilt) involve 16-bit quantities. Accordingly, the ilt_write routine was coded to pass a u16 value. For one early GPHY chip, 32-bit quantities are needed. For those writes, the value was clipped to 16 bits. This patch adds an ilt_write32 routine that receives a 32-bit quantity and writes it to the appropriate locations. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix for 4311 and 02/07/07 specification changesLarry Finger
The specifications for the bcm43xx driver have been modified. This patch incorporates these changes in the code, which results in the BCM4311 and BCM4312 working. The name of one of the PHY parameters, previously known as "version", has been changed to "analog", short for "analog core version" . Signed-off-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix for oops on resumeLarry Finger
There is a kernel oops on bcm43xx when resuming due to an overly tight timeout loop. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] bcm43xx: Ignore ampdu status reportsMichael Buesch
If bcm43xx were to process an afterburner (ampdu) status response, Linux would oops. The ampdu and intermediate status bits are properly named. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] bcm43xx: Janitorial change - remove two unused variablesLarry Finger
Two bit-field values are extracted from the sprom data and never used. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau
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 <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5Arjan van de Ven
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream
2007-02-09[PATCH] bcm43xx: Check error returns in initialization routinesLarry Finger
A number of the calls in the initialization routines fail to check the returned value for errors. This patch adds the necessary checks and logs any errors found when appropriate. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Enable fwpostfix in nondebug bcm43xxMichael Buesch
The in-kernel bcm43xx driver only works with V3 firmware, whereas the experimental version that incorporates the d80211 stack requires V4 firmware. In bcm43xx-d80211, the fwpostfix module parameter is used to differentiate between the versions. In bcm43xx-softmac, this module parameter is only enabled when debugging is on. This patch makes the module parameter available unconditionaly, and should ease the future transition from softmac to d80211. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix scaling error for 'iwlist freq' informationLarry Finger
The bcm43xx driver returns the available frequencies to 'iwlist freq' with the wrong scaling. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix scaling error for 'iwlist rate' informationLarry Finger
The bcm43xx scales the rate information supplied to a WE iwlist rate call incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix problem with >1 GB RAMLarry Finger
Some versions of the bcm43xx chips only support 30-bit DMA, which means that the descriptors and buffers must be in the first 1 GB of RAM. On the i386 and x86_64 architectures with more than 1 GB RAM, an incorrect assignment may occur. This patch ensures that the various DMA addresses are within the capability of the chip. Testing has been limited to x86_64 as no one has an i386 system with more than 1 GB RAM. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-05[PATCH] bcm43xx: Interrogate hardware-enable switch and update LEDsLarry Finger
The current bcm43xx driver ignores any wireless-enable switches on mini-PCI and mini-PCI-E cards. This patch implements a new routine to interrogate the radio hardware enabled bit in the interface, logs the initial state and any changes in the switch (if debugging enabled), activates the LED to show the state, and changes the periodic work handler to provide 1 second response to switch changes and to account for changes in the periodic work specs. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-01-18[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix failure to deliver PCI-E interruptsLarry Finger
The PCI-E modifications to bcm43xx do not set up the interrupt vector correctly. Tested with BCM4311 (PCI-E) on x86_64 and BCM4306 (PCI) on i386. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] ieee80211: Provide generic get_stats implementationDaniel Drake
bcm43xx and ipw2100 currently duplicate the same simplistic get_stats handler. Additionally, zd1211rw requires the same handler to fix a bug where all stats are reported as 0. This patch adds a generic implementation to the ieee80211 layer, which drivers are free to override. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] bcm43xx: correct "Move IV/ICV stripping into ieee80211_rx"Larry Finger
In the patch sent by Daniel Drake under the title "[PATCH] ieee80211: Move IV/ICV stripping into ieee80211_rx", a needed line was accidentally removed. (NOTE: I'm pretty sure this was my fault, not Daniel's. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] bcm43xx: Remove useless core enable/disable messagesLarry Finger
In the softmac version of bcm43xx, the core scan logs whether each core is enabled or disabled. This information is useless as one of the next steps is to enable all cores. This patch removes this output from the log. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] bcm43xx: remove badness variable and related routineLarry Finger
When the periodic work function in bcm43xx was converted for voluntary preemption to reduce latency, a new function was created to estimate the "badness" of each step, and this quantity was used to determine if preemption should be enabled when periodic work was undertaken. This concept was quite useful while debugging of periodic work was in progress. Now that this routine seems to be working correctly, it is time to simplify the code. This patch keeps the functionality intact, but simplifies the code. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] bcm43xx: add PCI-E codeStefano Brivio
The current bcm43xx driver does not contain code to handle PCI-E interfaces such as the BCM4311 and BCM4312. This patch, originally written by Stefano Brivio adds the necessary code to enable these interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] ieee80211: Move IV/ICV stripping into ieee80211_rxDaniel Drake
This patch adds a host_strip_iv_icv flag to ieee80211 which indicates that ieee80211_rx should strip the IV/ICV/other security features from the payload. This saves on some memmove() calls in the driver and seems like something that belongs in the stack as it can be used by bcm43xx, ipw2200, and zd1211rw I will submit the ipw2200 patch separately as it needs testing. This patch also adds some sensible variable reuse (idx vs keyidx) in ieee80211_rx Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-02[PATCH] bcm43xx: output proper link quality with scansLarry Finger
The bcm43xx-softmac driver fails to set two quantities needed for iwlist to compute wireless quality when scanning. As a result, userland programs using the quality to determine the best connection fail. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Add error checking in bcm43xx_sprom_write()Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker noted that these "if (err)"'s couldn't ever be true. It seems the intention was to check the return values of the bcm43xx_pci_write_config32()'s? Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-11-07[PATCH] bcm43xx: Drain TX status before starting IRQsMichael Buesch
Drain the Microcode TX-status-FIFO before we enable IRQs. This is required, because the FIFO may still have entries left from a previous run. Those would immediately fire after enabling IRQs and would lead to an oops in the DMA TXstatus handling code. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-31[PATCH] bcm43xx: fix unexpected LED control values in BCM4303 spromLarry Finger
The bcm43xx driver uses 4 locations in the devices sprom to determine the behavior of the leds. Certain defaults are assigned if all bits are set in those locations. On at least one BCM4303 chip, the sprom contains values other than the default, which executes an assertion placed in the default case of a following switch statement. This patch makes the leds on the above mentioned interface behave correctly. In addition, it limits the number of logged messages to 20 for the case of unexpected values in the sprom locations. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-31[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix low-traffic netdev watchdog TX timeoutsMichael Buesch
This fixes a netdev watchdog timeout problem. The software needs to call netif_tx_disable before running the hardware calibration code. The problem condition can be shown by the following timegraph. |---5secs - ~10 jiffies time---|---|OOPS ^ ^ last real TX periodic work stops netif At OOPS, the following happens: The watchdog timer triggers, because the timeout of 5secs is over. The watchdog first checks for stopped TX. _Usually_ TX is only stopped from the TX handler to indicate a full TX queue. But this is different. We need to stop TX here, regardless of the TX queue state. So the watchdog recognizes the stopped device and assumes it is stopped due to full TX queues (Which is a _wrong_ assumption in this case). It then tests how far the last TX has been in the past. If it's more than 5secs (which is the case for low or no traffic), it will fire a TX timeout. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-24[PATCH] missing include of dma-mapping.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-16[PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: Fix system hang for x86-64 with >1GB RAMLarry Finger
The bcm43xx-softmac software currently fails when running on x86_64 systems with more than 1GB RAM and one of the card variants with 30-bit DMA addressing. This patch uses the address extension bits in the hardware to set the correct DMA mask for the specific card in use. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-16[PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: check returned value from pci_enable_deviceLarry Finger
Linus's tree now has a configuration option that prints a warning whenever the returned value of any routine is ignored. This patch fixes the only such warning for bcm43xx. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-16[PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related racesMichael Buesch
This fixes some race conditions in the WirelessExtension handling and association handling code. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-16[PATCH] bcm43xx: fix race condition in periodic work handlerMichael Buesch
There is a potential race condition in the periodic_work_handler routine of bcm43xx-softmac. In addition to fixing this condition, the size of code is reduced by moving the mutex lock outside the if. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
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 <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-09-27Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (48 commits) [PATCH] bonding: update version number [PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix [PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again [PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC [PATCH] more s2io __iomem annotations [PATCH] restore __iomem annotations in e1000 [PATCH] 64bit bugs in s2io [PATCH] bonding: Fix primary selection error at enslavement time [PATCH] bonding: Don't mangle LACPDUs [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor [PATCH] bonding: Don't release slaves when master is admin down [PATCH] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling [PATCH] bonding: Handle large hard_header_len [PATCH] bonding: Remove unneeded NULL test [PATCH] bonding: Format fix in seq_printf call [PATCH] bonding: Convert delay value from s16 to int [PATCH] bonding: Allow bonding to enslave a 10 Gig adapter Delete unused drivers/net/gt64240eth.h [PATCH] skge: fiber support [PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth ...
2006-09-27[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_privateTheodore Ts'o
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>