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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:58:07 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com, faisal.latif@...el.com, shemminger@...tta.com, fbl@...hat.com, roland@...nel.org, sean.hefty@...el.com, hal.rosenstock@...il.com, fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net, divy@...lsio.com, jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com, sony.chacko@...gic.com, linux-driver@...gic.com, kaber@...sh.net, ursula.braun@...ibm.com, blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, joe@...ches.com, amwang@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, pablo@...filter.org Subject: [patch net-next V4 00/15] net: introduce upper device lists and remove dev->master This is a V4 of a repost of my previous patchset: "[patch net-next v2 00/15] net: introduce upper device lists and remove dev->master" from Aug 14 The discussion around "[net-next] bonding: don't allow the master to become its slave" forced me to think about upper<->lower device connections. This patchset adds a possibility to record upper device linkage. All upper<->lower devices are converted to use this mechanism right after. That leads to dev->master removal because this info becomes redundant since "master links" have the same value. After all changes, there is no longer possible to do things as: "bond->someotherdevice->samebond" Also I think that drivers like cxgb3, qlcnic, qeth would benefit by this in future by being able to get more appropriate info about l3 addresses. v3->v4: - comments in __netdev_upper_dev_link() squashed into one line - kfree_rcu used instead of call_rcu in netdev_upper_dev_unlink() v2->v3: - removed recursion in __netdev_has_upper_dev() - refreshed bits to be applicable on current net-next v1->v2: - s/unique/master/ better naming + stays closer to the past - fixed vlan err goto - original patch 15 (WARN_ON change) is squashed into the first patch Jiri Pirko (15): net: introduce upper device lists macvlan: add link to upper device vlan: add link to upper device rtnetlink: remove usage of dev->master team: remove usage of netdev_set_master() bridge: remove usage of netdev_set_master() netpoll: remove usage of dev->master cxgb3: remove usage of dev->master qlcnic: guard __vlan_find_dev_deep() by rcu_read_lock qeth: ensure that __vlan_find_dev_deep() is called with rcu_read_lock vlan: remove usage of dev->master in __vlan_find_dev_deep() nes: remove usage of dev->master bonding: remove usage of dev->master net: remove no longer used netdev_set_bond_master() and netdev_set_master() net: kill dev->master drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes.c | 8 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c | 2 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 30 +-- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 6 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 94 ++++---- drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h | 14 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c | 2 + drivers/net/macvlan.c | 9 +- drivers/net/team/team.c | 13 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 21 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 22 +- net/8021q/vlan.c | 10 +- net/8021q/vlan_core.c | 18 +- net/bridge/br_if.c | 6 +- net/core/dev.c | 244 +++++++++++++++++---- net/core/netpoll.c | 9 +- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 70 +++--- 18 files changed, 407 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-) -- 1.8.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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