linux/drivers/net
David S. Miller 2de27f307f Merge branch 'mlx4'
Amir Vadai says:

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This series from Yan Burman adds support for unicast MAC address filtering and
ndo FDB operations.  It also includes some optimizations to loopback related
decisions and checks in the TX/RX fast path and one cleanup, all in separate
patches.

Today, when adding macvlan devices, the NIC goes into promiscuous mode, since
unicast MAC filtering is not supported. With these changes, macvlan devices can
be added without the penalty of promiscuous mode.

If for some reason adding a unicast address filter fails e.g as of missing space in
the HW mac table, the device forces itself into promiscuous mode (and out of this
forced state when enough space is available).

Also, now it is possible to have bridge under multi-function configuration that include
PF and VFs.  In order to use bridge over PF/VFs, VM MAC fdb entries must be added e.g.
using 'bridge fdb add' command.

Changes from v1 - based on more comments from Eric Dumazet:
* added failure handling when adding unicast address filter

Changes from v0 - based on comments from Eric Dumazet:
* Removed unneeded synchronize_rcu()
* Use kfree_rcu() instead of synchronize_rcu() + kfree()
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-07 23:28:32 -05:00
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appletalk
arcnet ARCNET: remove __dev* attributes 2012-12-03 11:16:10 -08:00
bonding Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
caif caif: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages 2013-02-04 13:22:33 -05:00
can Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
cris ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers 2013-01-06 21:06:31 -08:00
dsa DSA: Convert spaces to tabs where appropriate 2013-01-10 00:04:34 -08:00
ethernet Merge branch 'mlx4' 2013-02-07 23:28:32 -05:00
fddi drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
hamradio drivers:net:misc: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages 2013-02-04 13:22:35 -05:00
hippi drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
hyperv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-01-29 15:32:13 -05:00
ieee802154 remove init of dev->perm_addr in drivers 2013-01-08 18:00:48 -08:00
irda drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals 2012-12-07 14:22:22 -05:00
phy drivers:net:misc: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages 2013-02-04 13:22:35 -05:00
plip
ppp
slip
team team: allow userspace to take control over carrier 2013-02-06 15:48:09 -05:00
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
vmxnet3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
wan wan: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages 2013-02-04 13:22:34 -05:00
wimax drivers: net: misc: Remove unused OOM variables 2013-02-06 14:58:52 -05:00
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
xen-netback xen-netback: allow changing the MAC address of the interface 2013-01-23 13:42:20 -05:00
dummy.c dummy: implement carrier change 2012-12-28 15:24:19 -08:00
eql.c
ifb.c ifb: dont hard code inet_net use 2013-01-14 15:13:39 -05:00
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: loopback: fix a dst refcounting issue 2013-01-27 01:30:35 -05:00
macvlan.c macvlan: add multicast filter 2013-02-06 15:59:47 -05:00
macvtap.c net: fix possible wrong checksum generation 2013-01-28 00:27:15 -05:00
Makefile
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c netpoll: add IPv6 support 2013-01-08 17:56:10 -08:00
rionet.c ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers 2013-01-06 21:06:31 -08:00
sb1000.c
Space.c drivers/net: delete old x86 variant of the seeq8005 driver 2013-01-22 10:39:56 -05:00
sungem_phy.c Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. 2012-11-19 14:31:35 +01:00
tun.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-02-05 14:12:20 -05:00
veth.c veth: fix a NULL deref in netif_carrier_off 2013-01-10 14:11:46 -08:00
virtio_net.c drivers:net:misc: Remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages 2013-02-04 13:22:35 -05:00
vxlan.c net/vxlan: Add ethtool drvinfo 2013-01-30 22:47:22 -05:00
xen-netfront.c xen/netfront: improve truesize tracking 2013-01-07 19:51:19 -08:00