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Jarod Wilson 9c22b4a34e net: use core MTU range checking in wireless drivers
- set max_mtu in wil6210 driver
- set max_mtu in atmel driver
- set min/max_mtu in cisco airo driver, remove airo_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers, remove libipw_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in p80211netdev, remove wlan_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in net/mac80211/iface.c and remove ieee80211_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in wimax/i2400m and remove i2400m_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in intersil/hostap and remove prism2_change_mtu
- set min/max_mtu in intersil/orinoco
- set min/max_mtu in tty/n_gsm and remove gsm_change_mtu

CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: Maya Erez <qca_merez@qca.qualcomm.com>
CC: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
CC: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-20 14:51:08 -04:00
Florian Westphal 860e9538a9 treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper
Replace all trans_start updates with netif_trans_update helper.
change was done via spatch:

struct net_device *d;
@@
- d->trans_start = jiffies
+ netif_trans_update(d)

Compile tested only.

Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
françois romieu b06626b899 wimax/i2400m: remove open-coded skb_cow_head.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-29 17:49:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds a0b1c42951 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking update from David Miller:

 1) Checkpoint/restarted TCP sockets now can properly propagate the TCP
    timestamp offset.  From Andrey Vagin.

 2) VMWARE VM VSOCK layer, from Andy King.

 3) Much improved support for virtual functions and SR-IOV in bnx2x,
    from Ariel ELior.

 4) All protocols on ipv4 and ipv6 are now network namespace aware, and
    all the compatability checks for initial-namespace-only protocols is
    removed.  Thanks to Tom Parkin for helping deal with the last major
    holdout, L2TP.

 5) IPV6 support in netpoll and network namespace support in pktgen,
    from Cong Wang.

 6) Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) and Multiple VLAN Registration
    Protocol (MVRP) support, from David Ward.

 7) Compute packet lengths more accurately in the packet scheduler, from
    Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use per-task page fragment allocator in skb_append_datato_frags(),
    also from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Add support for connection tracking labels in netfilter, from
    Florian Westphal.

10) Fix default multicast group joining on ipv6, and add anti-spoofing
    checks to 6to4 and 6rd.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

11) Make ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation memory limits more reasonable in modern
    times, rearrange inet frag datastructures for better cacheline
    locality, and move more operations outside of locking.  From Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

12) Instead of strict master <--> slave relationships, allow arbitrary
    scenerios with "upper device lists".  From Jiri Pirko.

13) Improve rate limiting accuracy in TBF and act_police, also from Jiri
    Pirko.

14) Add a BPF filter netfilter match target, from Willem de Bruijn.

15) Orphan and delete a bunch of pre-historic networking drivers from
    Paul Gortmaker.

16) Add TSO support for GRE tunnels, from Pravin B SHelar.  Although
    this still needs some minor bug fixing before it's %100 correct in
    all cases.

17) Handle unresolved IPSEC states like ARP, with a resolution packet
    queue.  From Steffen Klassert.

18) Remove TCP Appropriate Byte Count support (ABC), from Stephen
    Hemminger.  This was long overdue.

19) Support SO_REUSEPORT, from Tom Herbert.

20) Allow locking a socket BPF filter, so that it cannot change after a
    process drops capabilities.

21) Add VLAN filtering to bridge, from Vlad Yasevich.

22) Bring ipv6 on-par with ipv4 and do not cache neighbour entries in
    the ipv6 routes, from YOSHIFUJI Hideaki.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1538 commits)
  ipv6: fix race condition regarding dst->expires and dst->from.
  net: fix a wrong assignment in skb_split()
  ip_gre: remove an extra dst_release()
  ppp: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat
  atl1c: restore buffer state
  net: fix a build failure when !CONFIG_PROC_FS
  net: ipv4: fix waring -Wunused-variable
  net: proc: fix build failed when procfs is not configured
  Revert "xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put"
  net: move procfs code to net/core/net-procfs.c
  qmi_wwan, cdc-ether: add ADU960S
  bonding: set sysfs device_type to 'bond'
  bonding: fix bond_release_all inconsistencies
  b44: use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()
  xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put
  net: fec: Do a sanity check on the gpio number
  ip_gre: propogate target device GSO capability to the tunnel device
  ip_gre: allow CSUM capable devices to handle packets
  bonding: Fix initialize after use for 3ad machine state spinlock
  bonding: Fix race condition between bond_enslave() and bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate()
  ...
2013-02-20 18:58:50 -08:00
Tejun Heo 23663c8731 wimax/i2400m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling
i2400m_net_wake_tx() sets ->wake_tx_skb with the given skb if
->wake_tx_ws is not pending; however, i2400m_wake_tx_work() could have
just started execution and haven't fetched -><wake_tx_skb yet.  The
previous packet will be leaked.

Update ->wake_tx_skb handling.

* i2400m_net_wake_tx() now tests whether the previous ->wake_tx_skb
  has been consumed by ->wake_tx_ws instead of testing work_pending().

* i2400m_net_wake_stop() is simplified similarly.  It always puts
  ->wake_tx_skb if non-NULL.

* Spurious ->wake_tx_skb dereference outside critical section dropped
  from i2400m_wake_tx_work().

Only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wimax@intel.com
Cc: wimax@linuxwimax.org
2013-02-09 11:34:19 -08:00
Jiri Pirko 7826d43f2d ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-06 21:06:31 -08:00
Phil Sutter 4eee6a3a04 wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string
This happened on a machine with a custom hotplug script calling nameif,
probably due to slow firmware loading. At the time nameif uses ethtool
to gather interface information, i2400m->fw_name is zero and so a null
pointer dereference occurs from within i2400m_get_drvinfo().

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-27 22:30:09 -04:00
Eric Dumazet b8fbaef586 wimax/i2400m: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use
A driver start_xmit() method cannot free skb and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY,
since caller is going to reuse freed skb.

In fact netif_tx_stop_queue() / netif_stop_queue() is needed before
returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY or you can trigger a ksoftirqd fatal loop.

In case of memory allocation error, only safe way is to drop the packet
and return NETDEV_TX_OK

Also increments tx_dropped counter

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-16 02:01:41 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker ee40fa0656 drivers/net: Add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE
These were getting the macros from an implicit module.h
include via device.h, but we are planning to clean that up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

drivers/net: Add export.h to wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c

This relatively recently added file uses EXPORT_SYMBOL and hence
needs export.h included so that it is compatible with the module.h
split up work.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:08 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
David S. Miller 1cdc5abf40 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax 2010-05-15 23:14:16 -07:00
Joe Perches a4b770972b drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s
This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary
return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
void functions.

It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

It also does not remove null void functions with return.

Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

with some cleanups by hand.

Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-14 00:19:28 -07:00
Prasanna S. Panchamukhi ded0fd62a8 wimax/i2400m: increase tx queue length from 5 to 20 [v1]
This patch increases the tx_queue_len to 20 so as to
minimize the jitter in the throughput.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasannax.s.panchamukhi@intel.com>
2010-05-11 14:08:12 -07:00
Prasanna S. Panchamukhi 080de04e62 wimax/i2400m: move I2400M_MAX_MTU enum from netdev.c to i2400m.h
This patch moves I2400M_MAX_MTU enum defined in netdev.c to i2400m.h.
Follow up changes will make use of this value in other location,
thus requiring it to be moved to a global header file i2400m.h.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasannax.s.panchamukhi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2010-05-11 14:03:45 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 5ab5a7215a wimax/i2400m: fix device getting stuck in IDLE mode
The i2400m, when conected, will negotiate with the WiMAX basestation
to put the link in IDLE mode when it is not being used. Upon RX/TX
traffic, the link has to be restablished and that might require some
crypto handshakes and maybe a DHCP renew.

This process might take up to 20 (!) seconds and in some cases we were
seeing network watchdog warnings that weren't needed.

So the network watchdog timeout is updated to be slightly above that
20s threshold. As well, the driver itself will double check if the
device is stuck in IDLE mode -- if that happens, the device will be
reset (in this case the queue is also woken up to remove bogus--once
the device is reset--warnings).

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-11-03 12:49:36 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez c931ceeb78 wimax/i2400m: introduce i2400m_reset(), stopping TX and carrier
Currently the i2400m driver was resetting by just calling
i2400m->bus_reset(). However, this was missing stopping the TX queue
and downing the carrier. This was causing, for the corner case of the
driver reseting a device that refuses to go out of idle mode, that a
few packets would be queued and more than one reset would go through,
making the recovery a wee bit messy.

To avoid introducing the same cleanup in all the bus-specific driver,
introduced a i2400m_reset() function that takes care of house cleaning
and then calling the bus-level reset implementation.

The bulk of the changes in all files are just to rename the call from
i2400m->bus_reset() to i2400m_reset().

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-11-03 12:49:36 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 9835fd8499 wimax/i2400m: fix race condition with tcpdump et al
tcpdump and friends were not being able to decode packets sent via
WiMAX; they had a zero ethernet type, even when the stack was properly
sending them to the device with the right type.

It happens that the driver was overwriting the (fake) ethernet header
for creating the hardware header and that was bitting the cloning used
by tcpdump (et al) to look into the packets.

Use pkskb_expand_head() [method copied from the e1000 driver] to fix.

Thanks to Herbert Xu and Andi Kleen for helping to diagnose and
pointing to the right fix.

Cc: Herbert Xu <gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-19 15:56:12 +09:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 8f90f3ee83 wimax/i2400m: cleanup initialization/destruction flow
Currently the i2400m driver was starting in a weird way: registering a
network device, setting the device up and then registering a WiMAX
device.

This is an historic artifact, and was causing issues, a some early
reports the device sends were getting lost by issue of the wimax_dev
not being registered.

Fix said situation by doing the wimax device registration in
i2400m_setup() after network device registration and before starting
thed device.

As well, removed spurious setting of the state to UNINITIALIZED;
i2400m.dev_start() does that already.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-19 15:56:06 +09:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez ac53aed934 wimax/i2400m: on device stop, clean up pending wake & TX work
When the i2400m device needs to wake up an idle WiMAX connection, it
schedules a workqueue job to do it.

Currently, only when the network stack called the _stop() method this
work struct was being cancelled. This has to be done every time the
device is stopped.

So add a call in i2400m_dev_stop() to take care of such cleanup, which
is now wrapped in i2400m_net_wake_stop().

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-19 15:56:05 +09:00
Dan Williams abb3073383 i2400m: minimal ethtool support
Add minimal ethtool support for carrier detection.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-19 15:55:37 +09:00
Stephen Hemminger d0cf9c0dad wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t
Mostly just simple conversions:
  * ray_cs had bogus return of NET_TX_LOCKED but driver
    was not using NETIF_F_LLTX
  * hostap and ipw2x00 had some code that returned value
    from a called function that also had to change to return netdev_tx_t

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez fe44268385 wimax/i2400m: generate fake source MAC address with random_ether_addr()
The WiMAX i2400m driver needs to generate a fake source MAC address to
fake an ethernet header (for destination, the card's MAC is
used). This is the source of the packet, which is the basestation it
came from. The basestation's mac address is not usable for this, as it
uses its own namespace and it is not always available.

Currently the fake source MAC address was being set to all zeros,
which was causing trouble with bridging.

Use random_ether_addr() to generate a proper one that creates no
trouble.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-05-28 18:01:24 -07:00
Randy Dunlap ff5e2b4732 wimax: fix i2400m printk formats
Fix printk format warnings:

drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c:523: warning: format '%zu' expects type 'size_t', but argument 7 has type 'unsigned int'
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c:548: warning: format '%zu' expects type 'size_t', but argument 7 has type 'unsigned int'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-11 23:24:03 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 61b8d2688a wimax: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Edited by Inaky to fix conflicts due to changes in netdev.c

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:10:27 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez fd5c565c0c wimax/i2400m: support extended data RX protocol (no need to reallocate skbs)
Newer i2400m firmwares (>= v1.4) extend the data RX protocol so that
each packet has a 16 byte header. This header is mainly used to
implement host reordeing (which is addressed in later commits).

However, this header also allows us to overwrite it (once data has
been extracted) with an Ethernet header and deliver to the networking
stack without having to reallocate the skb (as it happened in fw <=
v1.3) to make room for it.

- control.c: indicate the device [dev_initialize()] that the driver
  wants to use the extended data RX protocol. Also involves adding the
  definition of the needed data types in include/linux/wimax/i2400m.h.

- rx.c: handle the new payload type for the extended RX data
  protocol. Prepares the skb for delivery to
  netdev.c:i2400m_net_erx().

- netdev.c: Introduce i2400m_net_erx() that adds the fake ethernet
  address to a prepared skb and delivers it to the networking
  stack.

- cleanup: in most instances in rx.c, the variable 'single' was
  renamed to 'single_last' for it better conveys its meaning.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:10:26 -08:00
Harvey Harrison ee437770c4 wimax: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:43:54 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez a962dc2520 wimax/i2400m: convert to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:03:35 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez ce6cde9280 i2400m: linkage to the networking stack
Implementation of the glue to the network stack so the WiMAX device
shows up as an Ethernet device.

Initially we shot for implementing a Pure IP device -- however, the
world seems to turn around Ethernet devices. Main issues were with the
ISC DHCP client and servers (as they don't understand types other than
Ethernet and Token Ring).

We proceeded to register with IANA the PureIP hw type, so that DHCP
requests could declare such. We also created patches to the main ISC
DHCP versions to support it. However, until all that permeates into
deployments, there is going to be a long time.

So we moved back to wrap Ethernet frames around the PureIP device. At
the time being this has overhead; we need to reallocate with space for
an Ethernet header. The reason is the device-to-host protocol
coalesces many network packets into a single message, so we can't
introduce Ethernet headers without overwriting valid data from other
packets.

Coming-soon versions of the firmware have this issue solved.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00