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Linus Torvalds
a46699c9a3 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-11-10 10:17:11 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
7ed0175a46 [PATCH] Don't auto-reap traced children
If a task is being traced we never auto-reap it even if it might look
like its parent doesn't care. The tracer obviously _does_ care.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-10 09:57:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
759979ab17 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-fixes-2.6 2005-11-10 09:48:34 -08:00
Liam Girdwood
b216c01829 [ARM] 3098/1: pxa2xx disable ssp irq
Patch from Liam Girdwood

This patch allows users of the pxa SSP driver to register their own irq
handlers instead of using the default SSP handler. It also cleans up the
CKEN clock and irq detection as the values are now stored in a table.

This patch replaces 2845/1

Changes:-
o Added flags parameter to ssp_init()
o Added SSP_NO_IRQ flag to disable registering of ssp irq handler (for
drivers that want to register their own handler)
o Cleaned up clock and irq detection, values are now stored in table.
o Added build changes to allow other drivers (e.g audio) to select the
ssp driver.
o corgi_ssp.c changed to use new interface.

Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 17:45:39 +00:00
Richard Purdie
078abcf95c [ARM] 3096/1: Add SharpSL Zaurus power and battery management core driver
Patch from Richard Purdie

This patch adds a power and battery management core driver which with
the addition of the right device files, supports the c7x0 and cxx00
series of Sharp Zaurus handhelds.

The driver is complex for several reasons. Battery charging is manually
monitored and controlled. When suspended, the device needs to
periodically partially resume, check the charging status and then
re-suspend. It does without bothering the higher linux layers as
a full resume and re-suspend is unnecessary. The code is carefully
written to avoid interrupts or calling code outside the module under
these circumstances. It also vets the various wake up sources and
monitors the device's power situation.

Hooks to limit the backlight intensity and to notify the battery
monitoring code of backlight events are connected/added as the
backlight is one of the biggest users of power on the device.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 17:42:29 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
3ae0af12b4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2005-11-10 07:37:51 -08:00
Tony Lindgren
b1faebb672 [ARM] 3144/1: OMAP 5/5: Update omap H2 defconfig
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch updates omap H2 defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:54 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
9ad5897c26 [ARM] 3143/1: OMAP 4/5: Update omap include files
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree.

This patch contains changes to common header files for
omap1xxx and omap24xx by various omap developers, and
improved cpu detection by Imre Deak

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:53 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
046d6b28eb [ARM] 3146/1: OMAP 3b/5: Add omap24xx clock framework
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch adds omap24xx specific clock code by
Richard Woodruff, Nishant Menon, Tony Lindgren et al.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:52 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
1dbae815a7 [ARM] 3145/1: OMAP 3a/5: Add support for omap24xx
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch adds support for omap24xx series of processors.
The files live in arch/arm/mach-omap2, and share common
files with omap15xx and omap16xx processors in
arch/arm/plat-omap.

Omap24xx support was originally added for 2.6.9 by TI.
This code was then improved and integrated to share common
code with omap15xx and omap16xx processors by various
omap developers, such as Paul Mundt, Juha Yrjola, Imre Deak,
Tony Lindgren, Richard Woodruff, Nishant Menon, Komal Shah
et al.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:51 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
1a8bfa1eb9 [ARM] 3142/1: OMAP 2/5: Update files common to omap1 and omap2
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree.
The highlights of the patch are:

- Serial port and framebuffer init improvments by Imre Deak

- Common omap pin mux framework by Tony Lindgren

- Common omap clock framework by Tony Lindren

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:50 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
3179a01939 [ARM] 3141/1: OMAP 1/5: Update omap1 specific files
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree.
The highlights of the patch are:

- Omap1 serial pport and framebuffer init updates by Imre Deak

- Add support for omap310 processor and Palm Tungsten E PDA
  by Laurent Gonzales, Romain Goyet, et al. Omap310 and
  omap1510 processors are now handled as omap15xx.

- Omap1 specific changes to shared omap clock framework
  by Tony Lindgren

- Omap1 specific changes to shared omap pin mux framework
  by Tony Lindgren

- Other misc fixes, such as update memory timings for smc91x,
  omap1 specific device initialization etc.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:48 +00:00
Alessandro Zummo
a7918f39bb [ARM] 3140/1: NSLU2 machine support
Patch from Alessandro Zummo

This patch adds support for the LinkSys NSLU2 running with
both big and little-endian kernels. The LinkSys NSLU2 is
a cost engineered ARM, XScale 420 based system similar to
the the Intel IXDP425 evaluation board. It uses the
IXP4XX ARCH.

While this patch applies independently of other patches
the resultant kernel requires further patches to successfully
use onboard devices, including the onboard flash. Since these
patches are independent of this one they will be submitted
separately.

A defconfig is not included here because not all of
the required drivers are actually in the kernel.
We intend to provide one as soon as the patches
will be incorporated in mainstream.

This patch is the combined work of nslu2-linux.org

Signed-off-by: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:05:04 +00:00
Russell King
af36bef0c5 [ARM] Fix csumpartial corner case
Ji-In Park discovered a bug in csumpartial which caused wrong
checksums with misaligned buffers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 11:40:53 +00:00
Igor Popik
a2932b35a0 [PCMCIA] i82365: release all resources if no devices are found
The i82365 driver does not release all the resources when the device is not
found. This can cause an oops when reading /proc/ioports after module
unload.

Signed-off-by: Igor Popik <igor.popik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-11-10 11:42:16 +01:00
Marcelo Tosatti
e346315088 [PCMCIA] MPC8xx PCMCIA update
Kconfig entry: dependency on 8xx
Makefile: fix whitespace breakage
m8xx_pcmcia.c:
	- asm/segment.h is gone
	- use generic PCMCIA suspend/resume methods

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-11-10 11:19:58 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
5ab0b37494 [PATCH] Alchemy PCMCIA: Fix config.h inclusion
Add rsp. remove the inclusion of <linux/config.h> as needed.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-11-10 11:18:26 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
7c43ee40ec Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-10 16:10:01 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
fe360cdfd2 powerpc: fix iSeries build
Only MULTIPLATFORM has phbs_remap_io.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-10 16:07:12 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
97671e4b29 ppc64: Add declarations to ppc64 headers as well as powerpc headers
For now, we need these declarations that we moved from C code in
the asm-ppc64 versions of these headers as well as the asm-powerpc
versions.  The asm-ppc64 versions will be disappearing shortly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 16:06:30 +11:00
Linas Vepstas
fe98aeab84 [PATCH] ppc64: bugfix: crash on PHB add
19-rpaphp-crashing.patch

This patch fixes a bug related to dlpar PHB add, after a PHB removal.

-- The crash was due to the PHB not having a pci_dn structure yet,
   when the phb is being added.

This code survived testing, of adding and removeig the PHB and all slots
underneath it, 17 times so far, as of this writing.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 16:02:35 +11:00
Linas Vepstas
d9564ad114 [PATCH] ppc64: mark failed devices
17-eeh-slot-marking-bug.patch

A device that experiences a PCI outage may be just one deivce out
of many that was affected. In order to avoid repeated reports of
a failure, the entire tree of affected devices should be marked
as failed. This patch marks up the entire tree.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 16:00:32 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
0c95fbb256 Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-10 15:54:00 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
49b09853df powerpc: Move some extern declarations from C code into headers
This also make klimit have the same type on 32-bit as on 64-bit,
namely unsigned long, and defines and initializes it in one place.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:53:40 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
06a98dba0d powerpc: implement atomic64_t on ppc64
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-10 15:51:14 +11:00
David Gibson
d3d2176a0b [PATCH] powerpc: Move more ppc64 files with no ppc32 equivalent to powerpc
This patch moves a bunch more files from arch/ppc64 and
include/asm-ppc64 which have no equivalents in ppc32 code into
arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc.  The file affected are:
	hvcall.h
	proc_ppc64.c
	sysfs.c
	lparcfg.c
	rtas_pci.c

The only changes apart from the move and corresponding Makefile
changes are:
	- #ifndef/#define in includes updated to _ASM_POWERPC_ form
	- trailing whitespace removed
	- comments giving full paths removed

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64), built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:32:37 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0f34f49029 [PATCH] ppc64: fix PCI IO mapping
phbs_remap_io(), which maps the PCI IO space into the kernel virtual space,
is called too early on powermac, and thus doesn't work.

This fixes it by removing the call from all platforms and putting it back
into the ppc64 common code where it belongs, after the actual probing of
the bus.

That means that before that call, only the ISA IO space (if any) is mapped,
any PIO access (from quirks for example) will fail. This happens not to be
a problem for now, but we'll have to rework that code if it becomes one in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:32:37 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
47c2ac8cc3 [PATCH] powerpc: 64k pages vs. U3 iommu
That DART (U3 iommu) code didn't properly scale the number of entries
when using !4k pages. That caused crashes when booting G5s with more
than 2Gb of RAM. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:03:37 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
87655ff268 [PATCH] powerpc: 64k pages pmd alloc fix
This patch makes the kernel use a different kmem cache for PMD pages
as they are smaller than PTE pages. Avoids waste of memory.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:03:29 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
3b44f137b9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 2005-11-09 19:57:25 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
676e2497f8 powerpc: remove some warnings when building iSeries
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-10 14:40:43 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
b01a55a865 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-11-09 19:32:25 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
940e3318c3 [PATCH] SUNRPC: don't reencode when looping in call transmit.
If the call to xprt_transmit() fails due to socket buffer space
exhaustion, we do not need to re-encode the RPC message when we
loop back through call_transmit.

Re-encoding can actually end up triggering the WARN_ON() in
call_decode() if we re-encode something like a read() request and
auth->au_rslack has changed.
It can also cause us to increment the RPCSEC_GSS sequence number
beyond the limits of the allowed window.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 19:31:33 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
e1449ed956 powerpc: 32-bit fixes for xmon
This makes the memory examine/change command print the address as
8 digits instead of 16, and makes the memory dump command print
4 4-byte values per line instead of 2 8-byte values.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:30:20 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
a7ddc5e853 powerpc: Add user CPU features for POWER4, POWER5, POWER5+ and Cell.
This is at the request of the glibc folks, who want to use these bits
to select libraries optimized for the microarchitecture and new
instructions in these processors.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:29:18 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
cbe62e2b4a powerpc: Fix SMP time initialization problem
We were getting the last_jiffy per-cpu variable set ahead of the current
timebase in smp_space_timers on SMP machines.  This caused the loop in
timer_interrupt to loop virtually forever, since tb_ticks_since assumes
that it will never be called with the timebase behind the last_jiffy
value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:28:03 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
094fe2e712 powerpc: Fixes for 32-bit powermac SMP
A couple of bugs crept in with the merge of smp.c...

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:26:12 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
0a5cab42a1 powerpc: Fix compile error in EEH code with gcc4
Gcc 4 doesn't like being told to inline a recursive function...

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:23:54 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
3db9aaaf87 powerpc: Fix typo introduced in merging platform codes
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:23:18 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
799d6046d3 [PATCH] powerpc: merge code values for identifying platforms
This patch merges platform codes.  systemcfg->platform is no longer used,
systemcfg use in general is deprecated as much as possible (and renamed
_systemcfg before it gets completely moved elsewhere in a future patch),
_machine is now used on ppc64 along as ppc32.  Platform codes aren't gone
yet but we are getting a step closer. A bunch of asm code in head[_64].S
is also turned into C code.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:37:51 +11:00
David Gibson
3ddfbcf19b [PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros
This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.

ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.

While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.

Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:10:38 +11:00
David Gibson
f6d3577da1 [PATCH] powerpc: Move scanlog.c to platforms/pseries
scanlog.c is only compiled on pSeries.  Thus, this patch moves it to
platforms/pseries.

Built and booted on pSeries LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).  Built
for iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:09:27 +11:00
David Gibson
26ef5c0957 [PATCH] powerpc: Merge cacheflush.h and cache.h
The ppc32 and ppc64 versions of cacheflush.h were almost identical.
The two versions of cache.h are fairly similar, except for a bunch of
register definitions in the ppc32 version which probably belong better
elsewhere.  This patch, therefore, merges both headers.  Notable
points:
	- there are several functions in cacheflush.h which exist only
on ppc32 or only on ppc64.  These are handled by #ifdef for now, but
these should probably be consolidated, along with the actual code
behind them later.
	- Confusingly, both ppc32 and ppc64 have a
flush_dcache_range(), but they're subtly different: it uses dcbf on
ppc32 and dcbst on ppc64, ppc64 has a flush_inval_dcache_range() which
uses dcbf.  These too should be merged and consolidated later.
	- Also flush_dcache_range() was defined in cacheflush.h on
ppc64, and in cache.h on ppc32.  In the merged version it's in
cacheflush.h
	- On ppc32 flush_icache_range() is a normal function from
misc.S.  On ppc64, it was wrapper, testing a feature bit before
calling __flush_icache_range() which does the actual flush.  This
patch takes the ppc64 approach, which amounts to no change on ppc32,
since CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE will never be set there, but does mean
renaming flush_icache_range() to __flush_icache_range() in
arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
	- The PReP register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to
arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c
	- The 8xx register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to a
new asm-powerpc/reg_8xx.h, included from reg.h
	- flush_dcache_all() was defined on ppc32 (only), but was
never called (although it was exported).  Thus this patch removes it
from cacheflush.h and from ARCH=powerpc (misc_32.S) entirely.  It's
left in ARCH=ppc for now, with the prototype moved to ppc_ksyms.c.

Built for Walnut (ARCH=ppc), 32-bit multiplatform (pmac, CHRP and PReP
ARCH=ppc, pmac and CHRP ARCH=powerpc).  Built and booted on POWER5
LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).

Built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc).  Built and
booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).  Built and booted
on G5 (ARCH=powerpc)

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:09:22 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
e130bedb7c Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-10 13:08:55 +11:00
Thomas Graf
482a8524f8 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink family
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:41 +01:00
Thomas Graf
9ac4a16983 [RTNETLINK]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
88fc2c8431 [XFRM]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
82ace47a72 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processor
Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of
a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there
was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function
for each netlink message found. The callback function may
refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting
the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will
return with a qlen != 0.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
a8f74b2288 [NETLINK]: Make netlink_callback->done() optional
Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making
it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
bfa83a9e03 [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface
Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.

The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00