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* [NETPOLL]: allow multiple netpoll_clients to register against one interfaceJeff Moyer2005-06-221-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides support for registering multiple netpoll clients to the same network device. Only one of these clients may register an rx_hook, however. In practice, this restriction has not been problematic. It is worth mentioning, though, that the current design can be easily extended to allow for the registration of multiple rx_hooks. The basic idea of the patch is that the rx_np pointer in the netpoll_info structure points to the struct netpoll that has rx_hook filled in. Aside from this one case, there is no need for a pointer from the struct net_device to an individual struct netpoll. A lock is introduced to protect the setting and clearing of the np_rx pointer. The pointer will only be cleared upon netpoll client module removal, and the lock should be uncontested. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETPOLL]: Introduce a netpoll_info structJeff Moyer2005-06-221-8/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a netpoll_info structure, which the struct net_device will now point to instead of pointing to a struct netpoll. The reason for this is two-fold: 1) fields such as the rx_flags, poll_owner, and poll_lock should be maintained per net_device, not per netpoll; and 2) this is a first step in providing support for multiple netpoll clients to register against the same net_device. The struct netpoll is now pointed to by the netpoll_info structure. As such, the previous behaviour of the code is preserved. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETPOLL]: Set poll_owner to -1 before unlocking in netpoll_poll_unlock()Jeff Moyer2005-06-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This trivial patch moves the assignment of poll_owner to -1 inside of the lock. This fixes a potential SMP race in the code. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+67
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!