more 2.6.x net driver merges

Added some more stuff at

bk pull bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/net-drivers-2.6

Others may download the patch from

ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test1-netdrvr2.patch.bz2

This will update the following files:

 Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c |  346 +-
 MAINTAINERS                          |    4 
 drivers/net/8139too.c                |    4 
 drivers/net/b44.c                    |   54 
 drivers/net/b44.h                    |    2 
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c    |  101 
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c       |    2 
 drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c               |    1 
 drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c        |    3 
 drivers/net/sk_mca.c                 |   17 
 drivers/net/sk_mca.h                 |    1 
 drivers/net/via-rhine.c              |   17 
 drivers/net/wan/Kconfig              |    3 
 drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig         |   10 
 drivers/net/wireless/Makefile        |    2 
 drivers/net/wireless/airo.c          |  510 +--
 drivers/net/wireless/wl3501.h        | 1764 +++++++---
 drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c     | 5616 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/linux/ethtool.h              |    2 
 19 files changed, 5835 insertions(+), 2624 deletions(-)

through these ChangeSets:

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1548)
[wireless airo] fix 2.4-isms that break build

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1547)
[bonding] sync ifenslave with 2.4 (pulls in several bug fixes)

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1546)
[wireless airo] Update to wireless extensions 16 (new spy API).

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1545)
[wireless airo] Update to wireless extensions 15 (add monitor mode).

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1544)
[wireless airo] Return channel in infrastructure mode.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1543)
[wireless airo] Checks for small packets before transmitting them.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1542)
[wireless airo] Returns proper status in case of transmission error.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1541)
[wireless airo] Fix small endianness bug.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1540)
[wireless airo] Don't call MIC functions if the card doesn't support them.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1539)
[wireless airo] Don't sleep when the stats are requested.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1538)
[wireless airo] Make locking "per thread" so it's fully preemptive.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1537)
[wireless airo] Update structs with the new fields in latest firmwares.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1536)
[wireless airo] Simplify dynamic buffer code in Cisco extensions.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1535)
[PATCH] 3c574_cs initialise spinlock

This patch against 2.5.75 initialises a spinlock when the structure containing it is allocated

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1534)
[PATCH] Software suspend and RTL 8139too in 2.6.0-test1

This patch is needed to make software suspend work with the 8139too driver loaded.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1533)
[PATCH] via-rhine 1.19-2.5: One more Rhine-I fix

This patch fixes another way the Rhine-I found to break down under load. It should bring Rhine-I behavior on par with the Rhine-II.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1532)
[PATCH] sk_mca

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1531)
[PATCH] Add ethtool TSO, Rx/Tx csum, SG Get/Set support

* Add ethtool TSO, Rx/Tx csum, SG Get/Set support.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1530)
[PATCH] add ethtool TSO get/set

* Add TSO get/set command to ethtool interface. Applies to both 2.4/2.5. Ethtool application patch sent under separate cover.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1529)
[PATCH] mark comx obsolete, by request

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1528)
[PATCH] fix ne2k-pci memleak

ne2k-pci leaks memory on unload. dev->priv is allocated in ethdev_init(), but never freed. against 2.4-bk, but also applies to 2.5-bk with offset.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1527)
[netdrvr b44] tons of fixes. should work now.

<[email protected]> (03/07/19 1.1525)
[netdrvr wan] update comx maintainer, by request

Previous entry said to be out of date by two years or more.

<[email protected]> (03/07/18 1.1310.96.56)
o wl3501: cleanup types

<[email protected]> (03/07/18 1.1310.96.55)
o wl3501: slow_down_io exists only on __i386___

The joys of having several arches at my home lab, thanks to parisc this time.

<[email protected]> (03/07/17 1.1310.96.54)
o wl3501: first cut at power management support

<[email protected]> (03/07/17 1.1310.96.53)
o wl3501: remove lots of uneeded casts

<[email protected]> (03/07/17 1.1310.96.52)
o wl3501: create iw_default_channel

Also aimed at being moved to the core wireless extensions code.

<[email protected]> (03/07/17 1.1310.96.51)
o wl3501: create iw_valid_channel

To validade if a channel is OK in a specific regulatory domain, I prefixed it with iw_ as I plan to move this stuff to the main wireless extensions code, ditto for the next changeset, where I'll introduce iw_chan2freq and iw_default_channel.

<[email protected]> (03/07/17 1.1310.96.50)
o wl3501: use more c99 style struct initializers

<[email protected]> (03/07/16 1.1310.96.49)
o wl3501: keep it simple, support only ARPHRD_ETHER packets

<[email protected]> (03/07/16 1.1310.96.48)
o wl3501: nuke def_chan, useless

But I still didn't managed to change the channel on the firmware... will implement wl3501_set_mib_value...

<[email protected]> (03/07/16 1.1310.96.47)
o wl3501: use c99 init style for the signals

also remove some unneeded casts.

<[email protected]> (03/07/15 1.1310.96.46)
o wl3501: create wl3501_esbq_exec to avoid cut'n'paste in several functions

<[email protected]> (03/07/15 1.1310.96.45)
o wl3501: use the regulatory domain defines

I.e. less magic numbers, also rename freq_domain to reg_domain, as in regulatory domain, as the atmel driver does, and that made me realize that this defines and the function that checks if a channel is valid in a regulatory domain should be moved to the wireless extensions (or some other place) common code.

<[email protected]> (03/07/15 1.1310.96.44)
o wl3501: remove llc_type stuff, not used

<[email protected]> (03/07/09 1.1310.96.43)
o wl3501: remove duplicate assignment of link->irq.IRQInfo2

<[email protected]> (03/07/07 1.1310.96.42)
o wl3501: kill wl3501_mac_addr, to follow the de-facto standard for mac addrs

<[email protected]> (03/07/07 1.1310.96.41)
o wl3501: kill wl3501_80211_data_mac_hdr, we already have ieee802_11_hdr

<[email protected]> (03/07/07 1.1310.96.40)
o wl3501: argh, WL3501_MIB_ATTR_{SHORT,LONG}_RETRY_LIMIT is u8

<[email protected]> (03/07/07 1.1310.96.39)
o wl3501: fix some mib variables sizes

Following what is in the 802.11 specs and doing experimentations.

<[email protected]> (03/07/07 1.1310.96.38)
o wl3501: remove dead code that was surviving from original driver

It never was used for anything meaningful, i.e. driver_state never is set to non zero.

<[email protected]> (03/07/06 1.1310.96.37)
o wl3501: kill magic numbers in cap_info, fix bss_type setting

it was only setting INFRA mode...

<[email protected]> (03/07/06 1.1310.96.36)
o wl3501: kill WL3501_SLOW_DOWN_IO, use slow_down_io() instead

Also fix some loop variables use, one of which potentially is related to ADHOC not working, i.e. it was not being properly initialized, thanks to gcc 3.3.1 (pre-release) and this was caught...

<[email protected]> (03/07/06 1.1310.96.35)
o wl3501: remove more unused code in wl3501.h

will be back in some way with iwpriv support.

<[email protected]> (03/07/02 1.1310.96.34)
o wl3501: remove commented out code

Will get back to this at some point.

<[email protected]> (03/07/02 1.1310.96.33)
o wl3501: revert the change to get_encode wrt priv_opt_implemented

It turns out that the first implementation of get_encode was right wrt checking WL3501_MIB_ATTR_PRIV_OPT_IMPLEMENTED, according to the "802.12 Wireless Networks - The Definitive Guide" O'Reilly book, so, put it back in.

<[email protected]> (03/07/02 1.1310.96.32)
o wl3501: kill a race in wl3501_get_mib_value and more

. collect statistics in wl3501_get_wireless_stats . WL3501_MIB_ATTR_PRIV_OPT_IMPLEMENTED doesn't seems
to be related to WEP, remove its test in get_encode

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.31)
o wl3501: implement get retry wireless extension

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.30)
o wl3501: implement get tx power wireless extension

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.29)
o wl3501: implement get power wireless extension

Now to study how to enable power management.

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.28)
o wl3501: implement get encode wireless extension

. Well, this is just for completeness, as with this specific
firmware in the cards I have WEP is not implemented... This is the information for the cards I have (tested just one but I doubt the others have WEP...):
Card Name: OEM WLAN/WPCMCIA
Firmware Date: 02.00.06 01/07/2000 12:13:49

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.27)
o wl3501: implement get frag threshold wireless extension

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.26)
o wl3501: use the MIB stuff in this card, add one more wireless extension

. Using the MIB in the card I'm now able to find lots of useful information
that will get used in more support for wireless extensions.
. Also some cleanups wrt ifdefing the code not yet used to write into the
flash of this card and some more messages tidy up.

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.25)
o wl3501: use offsetof(struct wl3501_{rx,tx}_hdr, addr4) in more places

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.24)
o wl3501: merge some bits from yet another fork of the original sources

This time from work done by Heiko Kirschke, and also do some simplification wrt access to ->addr4 in tx headers, i.e. use offsetoff and do just one wl3501_set_to_wla in wl3501_send_pkt.

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.23)
o wl3501: initialize link->release timer and use alloc_etherdev

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.22)
o wl3501: clarify arp type checking in wl3501_md_ind_interrupt

Information collected from another driver source found on the net for this hardware, written by [email protected], that I'm reading to find more information about this hardware, coalescing several efforts to have a driver for this card.

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.21)
o wl3501: update this->rssi at wl3501_md_ind_interrupt

Now the sensitivity information in iwconfig is dinamically updated.

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.20)
o wl3501: finally a sane use for this->def_chan!

With this we can finally select in a sane way the channel to use, selectable thru wireless extensions/iwconfig interface freq nr_channel :-)

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.19)
o wl3501: kill one magic number, introducing WL3501_ESSID_MAX_LEN

<[email protected]> (03/07/01 1.1310.96.18)
o wl3501: the first two chars in this->essid are special

. The real BSSID is after the first two bytes, that is why this->bssid
has 34 chars when IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE is just 32...
. Include some debug, selectable with the pc_debug kernel module
parameter, that is turned off by default.

<[email protected]> (03/06/30 1.1310.96.17)
o wl3501: use wl3501_reset when changing some parameters

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.16)
o wl3501: first cut at adding set_freq wireless extension

This will require further study and probably to include the MIB stuff in the original driver.

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.15)
o wl3501: implement get_rate wireless extension

For now returning a fixed rate of 2 Mbit/s, that is by far the most common for this thing, but perhaps this card can work at 1 Mbit/s and so I have to find out from were to get this info, without documentation coding drivers is, humm, "fun" :-\

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.14)
o wl3501: subtract one from this->channel to get the correct frequency

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.13)
o wl3501: do proper tx throttling

. check if queue was stopped when receiving interrupt tx confirmation,
prior to calling netif_wake_queue.
. stop the queue processing if there is less than 2 tx blocks in the
card, with this I get no drops in pktgen, whee! 8)

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.12)
o wl3501: create channel to frequency table and use it in get_freq

This table was obtained from the Planet WAP 1000 Access Point web interface, accessing it over this driver after I ran nmap against the AP box that is now only with the wireless interface, i.e. all accesses to it are over this driver :-)

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.11)
o wl3501: remove leftover debug from get_freq

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.10)
o wl3501: more wireless extensions: {get,set}_nick and get_freq

<[email protected]> (03/06/29 1.1310.96.9)
o wl3501: update tx statistics

<[email protected]> (03/06/28 1.1310.96.8)
o wl3501: restructure netdev handling and kill card_start abomination

<[email protected]> (03/06/28 1.1310.96.7)
o wl3501: implement some more wireless extensions

Also reorganize wl3501_card struct a bit to avoid wasting some bytes.

This time get_sense and set_wap wireless extensions were added, work in progress, ya know 8)

<[email protected]> (03/06/28 1.1310.96.6)
o wl3501: initial batch of support for wireless extensions and ethtool

<[email protected]> (03/06/27 1.1310.96.5)
o wl3501: tidy up wl3501_ioctl

. check if the device is present, bail out if not
. move the buffer to the place where it is used
. check the size of the firmware buffer passed from userspace . make wl3501_write_flash return -EIO on failure, 0 on success

<[email protected]> (03/06/27 1.1310.96.4)
o wl3501: move some variable declaration to where they are needed

<[email protected]> (03/06/27 1.1310.96.3)
o wl3501: add locking in the interrupt handler

<[email protected]> (03/06/27 1.1310.96.2)
o wl3501: remove stupid loop

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.10)
o wl3501: remove comment about supporting wireless extensions

It will, but is not supporting now, just some basic skeleton is in place.

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.9)
o wl3501: uncomment spin_lock usage, working well, have to stress this thing more now

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.8)
o wl3501: disabling the stupid loop for now, working well...

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.7)
o wl3501: use eth_copy_and_sum, assorted cleanups

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.6)
o wl3501: fix the bug that prevented us from reliably using MTU ~> WL3501_BLKSZ

<[email protected]> (03/06/26 1.1310.60.5)
o wl3501: reorganization

. use enun instead of tons of #defines
. put the initial smp locking, still commented out
. use some defines for magic numbers
. break the rx_interrupt routine in multiple inlines for each signal
type
. CodingStyle cleanups
. Activated the stupid loop, will now try without it, works? kill this
stupidity

<[email protected]> (03/06/21 1.1310.48.6)
o wl3501: new wireless driver for Planet WL 3501 802.11 PCMCIA card

After a long while, and with wireless becoming a hot topic, at least for me, I get back to work on this driver, Aristeu, Niemeyer, Marcelino, this will finally be integrated! Whee! :-)

Hi,

I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) NIC, it did not work with 2.6-vanilla or 2.6-mm but with this patch it works!

thanks!

Rudmer