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2009-08-13	net/bridge: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode	Fischer, Anna	1	-0/+17
	This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module. A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back out through the port the frame was received on. Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities. You can find additional information on VEPA here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/evb/ http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2009/new-hudson-vepa_seminar-20090514d.pdf http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2009jul/20090719-congdon.pdf An additional patch 'bridge-utils: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode' is provided to allow configuring hairpin mode from userspace tools. Signed-off-by: Paul Congdon <paul.congdon@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Fischer <anna.fischer@hp.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18	net: Fix bridgeing sysfs handling of rtnl_lock	Eric W. Biederman	1	-1/+2
	Holding rtnl_lock when we are unregistering the sysfs files can deadlock if we unconditionally take rtnl_lock in a sysfs file. So fix it with the now familiar patter of: rtnl_trylock and syscall_restart() Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-24	Kobject: change net/bridge to use kobject_create_and_add	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-1/+1
	The kobject in the bridge code is only used for registering with sysfs, not for any lifespan rules. This patch changes it to be only a pointer and use the simpler api for this kind of thing. Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11	sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner	Tejun Heo	1	-2/+1
	sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-25	bridge: add sysfs hook to flush forwarding table	Stephen Hemminger	1	-0/+8
	The RSTP daemon needs to be able to flush all dynamic forwarding entries in the case of topology change. This is a temporary interface. It will change to a netlink interface before RSTP daemon is officially released. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-07	Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-1/+1
	This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume issues, if it wants to. Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm driver fixes. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-09	[BRIDGE]: fix error handling for add interface to bridge	Stephen Hemminger	1	-47/+3
	Refactor how the bridge code interacts with kobject system. It should still use kobjects even if not using sysfs. Fix the error unwind handling in br_add_if. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11	[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)	Randy Dunlap	1	-0/+1
	net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-04	[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"	Kay Sievers	1	-2/+2
	Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18	[PATCH] kobject/hotplug split - net bridge	kay.sievers@vrfy.org	1	-0/+2
	kobject_add() and kobject_del() don't emit hotplug events anymore. We need to do it ourselves now. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+269
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!