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  1. 12 Sep, 2005 4 commits
    • Ralf Baechle's avatar
      [HAMRADIO]: driver cleanups · c4bc7ee2
      Ralf Baechle authored 
      Misc related cleanups in hamradio drivers:

 o Use symbolic constants instead of magic numbers
 o Don't try to handle the case where AX.25 isn't configured - the kernel
   configuration doesn't permit that.
 o Remove useless headers
Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c4bc7ee2
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      [CCID3]: Listen socks doesn't have a private CCID block · 59c2353d
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      59c2353d
    • Nishanth Aravamudan's avatar
      [NET]: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage · 121caf57
      Nishanth Aravamudan authored 
      Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.  Also use
human-time conversion functions instead of hard-coded division to avoid
rounding issues.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      121caf57
    • Evgeniy Polyakov's avatar
      [NET]: Add netlink connector. · 7672d0b5
      Evgeniy Polyakov authored 
      Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarEvgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      7672d0b5
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