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# 616d1c1b 08-Jun-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# c853f18b 07-Jun-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

Merge tag 'v4.7-rc2' into v4l_for_linus

Linux 4.7-rc2

* tag 'v4.7-rc2': (10914 commits)
Linux 4.7-rc2
devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.
parisc: Move die_if_kernel()

Merge tag 'v4.7-rc2' into v4l_for_linus

Linux 4.7-rc2

* tag 'v4.7-rc2': (10914 commits)
Linux 4.7-rc2
devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.
parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header
parisc: Fix pagefault crash in unaligned __get_user() call
parisc: Fix printk time during boot
parisc: Fix backtrace on PA-RISC
mm, page_alloc: recalculate the preferred zoneref if the context can ignore memory policies
mm, page_alloc: reset zonelist iterator after resetting fair zone allocation policy
mm, oom_reaper: do not use siglock in try_oom_reaper()
mm, page_alloc: prevent infinite loop in buffered_rmqueue()
checkpatch: reduce git commit description style false positives
mm/z3fold.c: avoid modifying HEADLESS page and minor cleanup
memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()
mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites
kdump: fix dmesg gdbmacro to work with record based printk
mm: fix overflow in vm_map_ram()
Btrfs: deal with duplciates during extent_map insertion in btrfs_get_extent
arm64: fix alignment when RANDOMIZE_TEXT_OFFSET is enabled
arm64: move {PAGE,CONT}_SHIFT into Kconfig
arm64: mm: dump: log span level
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Revision tags: v4.7-rc2
# 60c07f80 03-Jun-2016 Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Merge branches 'acpica-fixes', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-processor'

* acpica-fixes:
ACPICA / Hardware: Fix old register check in acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width()

* acpi-video:
ACPI / Thermal / video

Merge branches 'acpica-fixes', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-processor'

* acpica-fixes:
ACPICA / Hardware: Fix old register check in acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width()

* acpi-video:
ACPI / Thermal / video: fix max_level incorrect value

* acpi-processor:
ACPI / processor: Avoid reserving IO regions too early

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# 2eec3707 03-Jun-2016 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Merge irqchip updates from Marc Zyngier:

- A number of embarassing buglets (GICv3, PIC

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Merge irqchip updates from Marc Zyngier:

- A number of embarassing buglets (GICv3, PIC32)
- A more substential errata workaround for Cavium's GICv3 ITS
(kept for post-rc1 due to its dependency on NUMA)

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# 5599617e 02-Jun-2016 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Git got absolutely destroyed with all our cherry-picking from
drm-intel-next-queued to various branches. It ended up insert

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Git got absolutely destroyed with all our cherry-picking from
drm-intel-next-queued to various branches. It ended up inserting
intel_crtc_page_flip 2x even in intel_display.c.

Backmerge to get back to sanity.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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# 6a2cf60b 30-May-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

Merge tag 'v4.7-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.7-rc1

* tag 'v4.7-rc1': (10534 commits)
Linux 4.7-rc1
hash_string: Fix zero-length case for !DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
Rename other copy of hash_string to

Merge tag 'v4.7-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.7-rc1

* tag 'v4.7-rc1': (10534 commits)
Linux 4.7-rc1
hash_string: Fix zero-length case for !DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
Rename other copy of hash_string to hashlen_string
hpfs: implement the show_options method
affs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed
hpfs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed
fs: fix binfmt_aout.c build error
h8300: Add <asm/hash.h>
microblaze: Add <asm/hash.h>
m68k: Add <asm/hash.h>
<linux/hash.h>: Add support for architecture-specific functions
fs/namei.c: Improve dcache hash function
Eliminate bad hash multipliers from hash_32() and hash_64()
Change hash_64() return value to 32 bits
<linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h>: Define hash_str() in terms of hashlen_string()
fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function
Pull out string hash to <linux/stringhash.h>
Revert "platform/chrome: chromeos_laptop: Add Leon Touch"
i2c: dev: use after free in detach
MIPS: Add missing FROZEN hotplug notifier transitions
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Revision tags: v4.7-rc1
# a7fd20d1 18-May-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:

1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

2) Partial

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:

1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous. From Eric
Dumazet.

7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
driver, from Gal Pressman.

9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
Leitner.

14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
socket timestamp sampling. From Martin KaFai Lau.

15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
Nicolas Dichtel.

16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
Reynes.

18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
Vivien Didelot

20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
qed: add support for dcbx.
ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
qed: Remove a stray tab
net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
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Revision tags: v4.6, v4.6-rc7
# 4d659fcb 04-May-2016 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Merge branch 'kill_trans_start'

Florian Westphal says:

====================
net: remove trans_start from struct net_device

We currently have two instances for trans_start, once in
net_device and o

Merge branch 'kill_trans_start'

Florian Westphal says:

====================
net: remove trans_start from struct net_device

We currently have two instances for trans_start, once in
net_device and once in netdev_queue.

This series removes trans_start from net_device.
Updates to dev->trans_start are replaced with updates to netdev queue 0.

This series is compile-tested only.
Replacement is done in 3 steps:

1. Replace read-accesses:
x = dev->trans_start

gets replaced by
x = dev_trans_start(dev)

2. Replace write accesses:
dev->trans_start = jiffies;

gets replaced with new helper:
netif_trans_update(dev);

3. This helper is then changed to set
netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, 0)->trans_start
instead of dev->trans_start.

After this dev->trans_start can be removed.

It should be noted that after this series several instances
of netif_trans_update() are useless (if they occur in
.ndo_start_xmit and driver doesn't set LLTX flag -- stack already
did an update).

Comments welcome.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 860e9538 03-May-2016 Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

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

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>

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Revision tags: v4.6-rc6, v4.6-rc5, v4.6-rc4, v4.6-rc3, v4.6-rc2, v4.6-rc1, v4.5, v4.5-rc7, v4.5-rc6
# e5451c8f 23-Feb-2016 Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'linusw-gpio/for-next' into devm_gpiochip

Base for demv_gpiochip_add_data() and devm_gpiochip_remove().


Revision tags: v4.5-rc5, v4.5-rc4, v4.5-rc3, v4.5-rc2, v4.5-rc1, v4.4, v4.4-rc8, v4.4-rc7, v4.4-rc6, v4.4-rc5, v4.4-rc4, v4.4-rc3, v4.4-rc2, v4.4-rc1, v4.3, v4.3-rc7, v4.3-rc6, v4.3-rc5, v4.3-rc4, v4.3-rc3, v4.3-rc2, v4.3-rc1
# 01b944fe 03-Sep-2015 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare first round of input updates for 4.3 merge window.


Revision tags: v4.2, v4.2-rc8, v4.2-rc7, v4.2-rc6, v4.2-rc5, v4.2-rc4
# c57d5621 20-Jul-2015 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v4.2-rc3' into next

Sync up with Linux 4.2-rc3 to bring in infrastructure (OF) pieces.


Revision tags: v4.2-rc3, v4.2-rc2, v4.2-rc1
# ec3b34e1 22-Jun-2015 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branches 'for-4.2/i2c-hid', 'for-4.2/lenovo', 'for-4.2/plantronics', 'for-4.2/rmi', 'for-4.2/sensor-hub', 'for-4.2/sjoy', 'for-4.2/sony' and 'for-4.2/wacom' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/

Merge branches 'for-4.2/i2c-hid', 'for-4.2/lenovo', 'for-4.2/plantronics', 'for-4.2/rmi', 'for-4.2/sensor-hub', 'for-4.2/sjoy', 'for-4.2/sony' and 'for-4.2/wacom' into for-linus

Conflicts:
drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c

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Revision tags: v4.1, v4.1-rc8
# 6724af48 09-Jun-2015 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'fix/fsl-dspi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-fsl-dspi


Revision tags: v4.1-rc7, v4.1-rc6, v4.1-rc5, v4.1-rc4, v4.1-rc3
# 7ae383be 08-May-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, before applying dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


Revision tags: v4.1-rc2
# b3e5ced6 27-Apr-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

Merge tag 'v4.1-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.1-rc1

* tag 'v4.1-rc1': (11651 commits)
Linux 4.1-rc1
x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue
v4l: xilinx: fix for includ

Merge tag 'v4.1-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.1-rc1

* tag 'v4.1-rc1': (11651 commits)
Linux 4.1-rc1
x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue
v4l: xilinx: fix for include file movement
platform/chrome: chromeos_laptop - instantiate Atmel at primary address
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
fs/9p: fix readdir()
Btrfs: prevent list corruption during free space cache processing
toshiba_acpi: Do not register vendor backlight when acpi_video bl is available
x86: fix special __probe_kernel_write() tail zeroing case
crypto: img-hash - CRYPTO_DEV_IMGTEC_HASH should depend on HAS_DMA
crypto: x86/sha512_ssse3 - fixup for asm function prototype change
nios2: rework cache
nios2: Add types.h header required for __u32 type
ALSA: hda - fix headset mic detection problem for one more machine
eth: bf609 eth clock: add pclk clock for stmmac driver probe
blackfin: Wire up missing syscalls
Btrfs: fix inode cache writeout
ACPI / scan: Add a scan handler for PRP0001
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Revision tags: v4.1-rc1
# 64131a87 21-Apr-2015 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

Merge branch 'drm-next-merged' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux into v4l_for_linus

* 'drm-next-merged' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (9717 commits)
media-bus: Fixup

Merge branch 'drm-next-merged' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux into v4l_for_linus

* 'drm-next-merged' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (9717 commits)
media-bus: Fixup RGB444_1X12, RGB565_1X16, and YUV8_1X24 media bus format
hexdump: avoid warning in test function
fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id executables
smp: Fix error case handling in smp_call_function_*()
iommu-common: Fix PARISC compile-time warnings
sparc: Make LDC use common iommu poll management functions
sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions
Break up monolithic iommu table/lock into finer graularity pools and lock
sparc: Revert generic IOMMU allocator.
tools/power turbostat: correct dumped pkg-cstate-limit value
tools/power turbostat: calculate TSC frequency from CPUID(0x15) on SKL
tools/power turbostat: correct DRAM RAPL units on recent Xeon processors
tools/power turbostat: Initial Skylake support
tools/power turbostat: Use $(CURDIR) instead of $(PWD) and add support for O= option in Makefile
tools/power turbostat: modprobe msr, if needed
tools/power turbostat: dump MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT2
tools/power turbostat: use new MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT names
Bluetooth: hidp: Fix regression with older userspace and flags validation
config: Enable NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE by default when SWIOTLB is selected
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix and clean up error handling in pt_event_add()
...

That solves several merge conflicts:
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/subdev-formats.xml
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
drivers/staging/media/mn88473/mn88473.c
include/linux/kconfig.h
include/uapi/linux/media-bus-format.h

The ones at subdev-formats.xml and media-bus-format.h are not trivial.
That's why we opted to merge from DRM.

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# 2c33ce00 20-Apr-2015 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

Merge Linus master into drm-next

The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards,
due to API changes in the regulator tree.

I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build.

Signed-o

Merge Linus master into drm-next

The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards,
due to API changes in the regulator tree.

I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

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# 6c373ca8 15-Apr-2015 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add BQL support to via-rhine, from Tino Reichardt.

2) Integrate SWITCHDEV layer s

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add BQL support to via-rhine, from Tino Reichardt.

2) Integrate SWITCHDEV layer support into the DSA layer, so DSA drivers
can support hw switch offloading. From Floria Fainelli.

3) Allow 'ip address' commands to initiate multicast group join/leave,
from Madhu Challa.

4) Many ipv4 FIB lookup optimizations from Alexander Duyck.

5) Support EBPF in cls_bpf classifier and act_bpf action, from Daniel
Borkmann.

6) Remove the ugly compat support in ARP for ugly layers like ax25,
rose, etc. And use this to clean up the neigh layer, then use it to
implement MPLS support. All from Eric Biederman.

7) Support L3 forwarding offloading in switches, from Scott Feldman.

8) Collapse the LOCAL and MAIN ipv4 FIB tables when possible, to speed
up route lookups even further. From Alexander Duyck.

9) Many improvements and bug fixes to the rhashtable implementation,
from Herbert Xu and Thomas Graf. In particular, in the case where
an rhashtable user bulk adds a large number of items into an empty
table, we expand the table much more sanely.

10) Don't make the tcp_metrics hash table per-namespace, from Eric
Biederman.

11) Extend EBPF to access SKB fields, from Alexei Starovoitov.

12) Split out new connection request sockets so that they can be
established in the main hash table. Much less false sharing since
hash lookups go direct to the request sockets instead of having to
go first to the listener then to the request socks hashed
underneath. From Eric Dumazet.

13) Add async I/O support for crytpo AF_ALG sockets, from Tadeusz Struk.

14) Support stable privacy address generation for RFC7217 in IPV6. From
Hannes Frederic Sowa.

15) Hash network namespace into IP frag IDs, also from Hannes Frederic
Sowa.

16) Convert PTP get/set methods to use 64-bit time, from Richard
Cochran.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1816 commits)
fm10k: Bump driver version to 0.15.2
fm10k: corrected VF multicast update
fm10k: mbx_update_max_size does not drop all oversized messages
fm10k: reset head instead of calling update_max_size
fm10k: renamed mbx_tx_dropped to mbx_tx_oversized
fm10k: update xcast mode before synchronizing multicast addresses
fm10k: start service timer on probe
fm10k: fix function header comment
fm10k: comment next_vf_mbx flow
fm10k: don't handle mailbox events in iov_event path and always process mailbox
fm10k: use separate workqueue for fm10k driver
fm10k: Set PF queues to unlimited bandwidth during virtualization
fm10k: expose tx_timeout_count as an ethtool stat
fm10k: only increment tx_timeout_count in Tx hang path
fm10k: remove extraneous "Reset interface" message
fm10k: separate PF only stats so that VF does not display them
fm10k: use hw->mac.max_queues for stats
fm10k: only show actual queues, not the maximum in hardware
fm10k: allow creation of VLAN on default vid
fm10k: fix unused warnings
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Revision tags: v4.0
# 39c853eb 12-Apr-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Merge branch 'for-davem' into for-next


Revision tags: v4.0-rc7, v4.0-rc6, v4.0-rc5, v4.0-rc4, v4.0-rc3, v4.0-rc2
# 1d5da757 03-Mar-2015 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations.

Before the ax25 stack calls dev_queue_xmit it always calls
ax25_type_trans which sets skb->protocol to ETH_P_AX25.

Which means that by looking at

ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations.

Before the ax25 stack calls dev_queue_xmit it always calls
ax25_type_trans which sets skb->protocol to ETH_P_AX25.

Which means that by looking at the protocol type it is possible to
detect IP packets that have not been munged by the ax25 stack in
ndo_start_xmit and call a function to munge them.

Rename ax25_neigh_xmit to ax25_ip_xmit and tweak the return type and
value to be appropriate for an ndo_start_xmit function.

Update all of the ax25 devices to test the protocol type for ETH_P_IP
and return ax25_ip_xmit as the first thing they do. This preserves
the existing semantics of IP packet processing, but the timing will be
a little different as the IP packets now pass through the qdisc layer
before reaching the ax25 ip packet processing.

Remove the now unnecessary ax25 neighbour table operations.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# b898441f 02-Mar-2015 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Merge branch 'neigh_cleanups'

Eric W. Biederman says:

====================
Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups

While looking at the neighbour table to what it would take to allow
using next hops in

Merge branch 'neigh_cleanups'

Eric W. Biederman says:

====================
Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups

While looking at the neighbour table to what it would take to allow
using next hops in a different address family than the current packets
I found a partial resolution for my issues and I stumbled upon some
work that makes the neighbour table code easier to understand and
maintain.

Long ago in a much younger kernel ax25 found a hack to use
dev_rebuild_header to transmit it's packets instead of going through
what today is ndo_start_xmit.

When the neighbour table was rewritten into it's current form the ax25
code was such a challenge that arp_broken_ops appeard in arp.c and
neigh_compat_output appeared in neighbour.c to keep the ax25 hack alive.

With a little bit of work I was able to remove some of the hack that
is the ax25 transmit path for ip packets and to isolate what remains
into a slightly more readable piece of code in ax25_ip.c. Removing the
need for the generic code to worry about ax25 special cases.

After cleaning up the old ax25 hacks I also performed a little bit of
work on neigh_resolve_output to remove the need for a dst entry and to
ensure cached headers get a deterministic protocol value in their cached
header. This guarantees that a cached header will not be different
depending on which protocol of packet is transmitted, and it allows
packets to be transmitted that don't have a dst entry. There remains
a small amount of code that takes advantage of when packets have a dst
entry but that is something different.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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# 3b6a94be 02-Mar-2015 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

ax25: Refactor to use private neighbour operations.

AX25 already has it's own private arp cache operations to isolate
it's abuse of dev_rebuild_header to transmit packets. Add a function
ax25_neigh

ax25: Refactor to use private neighbour operations.

AX25 already has it's own private arp cache operations to isolate
it's abuse of dev_rebuild_header to transmit packets. Add a function
ax25_neigh_construct that will allow all of the ax25 devices to
force using these operations, so that the generic arp code does
not need to.

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Revision tags: v4.0-rc1, v3.19, v3.19-rc7, v3.19-rc6, v3.19-rc5, v3.19-rc4, v3.19-rc3, v3.19-rc2, v3.19-rc1, v3.18, v3.18-rc7, v3.18-rc6
# b10778a0 19-Nov-2014 James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

Merge commit 'v3.17' into next


Revision tags: v3.18-rc5
# 890ca861 12-Nov-2014 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v3.18-rc4' into x86/cleanups, to refresh the tree before pulling new changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


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