Reorder the Atmel options so that the menu appears saner.
Before:
  < >   Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)
  <*>   Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support
  < >     Atmel at76c506 PCI cards (NEW)
  < > Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards
  < > Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards (NEW)

After:
  < >   Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)
  <*>   Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support
  < >     Atmel at76c506 PCI cards (NEW)
  < >     Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards (NEW)
  < >   Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards
Signed-off-by: NFaidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

While in monitor mode the zd1211rw received only a limited
set of packets. This patch forwards now all packets the device
receives. Notify that while monitoring no FCS checks are done; so
strange packets might appear in the network sniffer of your
choice.

ATTENTION: Support for multiple interfaces on a single ZD1211
device is currently broken. So this code works only on the first
interface.

Here is an example to put the device in monitor mode.

iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 channel 10

[dsd@gentoo.org: backport to mainline]
Signed-off-by: NUlrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch adds a mac80211 wireless driver for ADMtek ADM8211 based
wireless cards.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There are a few TODO comments in the mac80211 sources regarding
hardware offload for Michael MIC verification. Those items are,
however, better handled in the driver instead of the stack, if
any device requires such hand-holding.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

tx.mode must be set also for buffered frames. It is used in the tx hanlders
Signed-off-by: NTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Stats are now available for device usage inside network_device
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Johannes Berg noticed that in __ieee80211_tx_prepare() we try to get the
STA from addr1 of the ieee80211 header when the radiotap header is actually
still at the front of the packet.  This patch defers doing that until the
radiotap header is gone.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Work-around for broken APs that use a non-zero key index for WEP
pairwise keys. With this patch, WEP encryption only is exempt from
providing a zero key index.
Signed-off-by: NVolker Braun <volker.braun@physik.hu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The TKIP mixing code was added for the benefit of Intel's ipw3945
chipset but that code ended up not using it. We have previously
identified many problems with this code and it crystallized that
library functions for mixing are likely to handle this in much
more generality and might allow b43 to take advantage of hardware
acceleration for TKIP.

Due to these reasons, remove the TKIP mixing for hardware
accelerated crypto operations.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch makes the mac80211/driver interface rely only on the
IEEE80211_TXCTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag to signal to the driver whether
a frame should be encrypted or not, since mac80211 internally no
longer relies on HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID either this removes it, changes
the key index to be a u8 in all places and makes the full range of
the value available to drivers.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch formats some documentation in mac80211.h into kerneldoc
and also adds some more explanations for hardware crypto.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

No existing drivers use this callback, hence there's no telling
how it might be used. In fact, it is unlikely to be of much use
as-is because the default key index isn't something that the
driver can do much with without knowing which interface it was
for etc. And if it needs the key index for the transmitted frame,
it can get it by keeping a reference to the key_conf structure
and looking it up by hw_key_idx.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch reworks the various hardware crypto related
flags to make them more local, i.e. put them with each
key or each packet instead of into the hw struct.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch removes all mention of the atheros turbo modes that
can't possibly work properly anyway since in some places we don't
check for them when we should.

I have no idea what the iwlwifi drivers were doing with these but
it can't possibly have been correct.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

During receive processing, we select the key long before using it and
because there's no locking it is possible that we kfree() the key
after having selected it but before using it for crypto operations.
Obviously, this is bad.

Secondly, during transmit processing, there are two possible races: We
have a similar race between select_key() and using it for encryption,
but we also have a race here between select_key() and hardware
encryption (both when a key is removed.)

This patch solves these issues by using RCU: when a key is to be freed,
we first remove the pointer from the appropriate places (sdata->keys,
sdata->default_key, sta->key) using rcu_assign_pointer() and then
synchronize_rcu(). Then, we can safely kfree() the key and remove it
from the hardware. There's a window here where the hardware may still
be using it for decryption, but we can't work around that without having
two hardware callbacks, one to disable the key for RX and one to disable
it for TX; but the worst thing that will happen is that we receive a
packet decrypted that we don't find a key for any more and then drop it.

When we add a key, we first need to upload it to the hardware and then,
using rcu_assign_pointer() again, link it into our structures.

In the code using keys (TX/RX paths) we use rcu_dereference() to get the
key and enclose the whole tx/rx section in a rcu_read_lock() ...
rcu_read_unlock() block. Because we've uploaded the key to hardware
before linking it into internal structures, we can guarantee that it is
valid once get to into tx().

One possible race condition remains, however: when we have hardware
acceleration enabled and the driver shuts down the queues, we end up
queueing the frame. If now somebody removes the key, the key will be
removed from hwaccel and then then driver will be asked to encrypt the
frame with a key index that has been removed. Hence, drivers will need
to be aware that the hw_key_index they are passed might not be under
all circumstances. Most drivers will, however, simply ignore that
condition and encrypt the frame with the selected key anyway, this
only results in a frame being encrypted with a wrong key or dropped
(rightfully) because the key was not valid. There isn't much we can
do about it unless we want to walk the pending frame queue every time
a key is removed and remove all frames that used it.

This race condition, however, will most likely be solved once we add
multiqueue support to mac80211 because then frames will be queued
further up the stack instead of after being processed.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Kalle Valo noticed that QoS frames are sent with an invalid QoS control
field; this is because we increase the header length but neither
initialise the space nor actually have enough space in the header
structure for the QoS control field.

This patch fixes it by treating the QoS field specially and appending it
explicitly, initialising it to zero.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

mac80211 never calls wireless_spy_update so these aren't
useful.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMichael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

On loaded/big hosts, rt_check_expire() if of litle use, because it
generally breaks out of its main loop because of a jiffies change.

It can take a long time (read : timer invocations) to actually
scan the whole hash table, freeing unused entries.

Converting it to use a workqueue instead of softirq is a nice
move because we can allow rt_check_expire() to do the scan
it is supposed to do, without hogging the CPU.

This has an impact on the average number of entries in cache,
reducing ram usage. Cache is more responsive to parameter
changes (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_timeout and
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval)

Note: Maybe the default value of gc_interval (60 seconds)
is too high, since this means we actually need 5 (300/60)
invocations to scan the whole table.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add a documentation file which contains
a short description about rfkill with some
notes about drivers and the userspace interface.

Changes since v1 and v2:
 - Spellchecking
Signed-off-by: NIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

This patch will add support for UWB keys to rfkill,
support for this has been requested by Inaky.
Signed-off-by: NIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

As Dmitry pointed out earlier, rfkill-input.c
doesn't support irda because there are no users
and we shouldn't add unrequired KEY_ defines.

However, RFKILL_TYPE_IRDA was defined in the
rfkill.h header file and would confuse people
about whether it is implemented or not.

This patch removes IRDA support completely,
so it can be added whenever a driver wants the
feature.
Signed-off-by: NIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The problem:  proc_net files remember which network namespace the are
against but do not remember hold a reference count (as that would pin
the network namespace).   So we currently have a small window where
the reference count on a network namespace may be incremented when opening
a /proc file when it has already gone to zero.

To fix this introduce maybe_get_net and get_proc_net.

maybe_get_net increments the network namespace reference count only if it is
greater then zero, ensuring we don't increment a reference count after it
has gone to zero.

get_proc_net handles all of the magic to go from a proc inode to the network
namespace instance and call maybe_get_net on it.

PROC_NET the old accessor is removed so that we don't get confused and use
the wrong helper function.

Then I fix up the callers to use get_proc_net and handle the case case
where get_proc_net returns NULL.  In that case I return -ENXIO because
effectively the network namespace has already gone away so the files
we are trying to access don't exist anymore.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When CONFIG_NET=no, init_net is unresolved because net_namespace.c
is not compiled and the include pull init_net definition.

This problem was very similar with the ipc namespace where the kernel
can be compiled with SYSV ipc out.

This patch fix that defining a macro which simply remove init_net
initialization from nsproxy namespace aggregator.

Compiled and booted on qemu-i386 with CONFIG_NET=no and CONFIG_NET=yes.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is done in order to, add support to changing the rate table to
use the upper-boundry L2T (length to time) value. Currently we use the
lower-boundry, which result in under-estimating the actual bandwidth
usage.

Extend the tc_ratespec struct, with two parameters: 1) "cell_align"
that allow adjusting the alignment of the rate table. 2) "overhead"
that allow adding a packet overhead before the lookup.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Acked-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Change L2T (length to time) macros, in all rate based schedulers, to
call a common function qdisc_l2t() that does the rate table lookup.
This function handles if the packet size lookup is larger than the
rate table, which often occurs with TSO enabled.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Acked-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch makes the following needlessly global variables static:
- sctp_memory_pressure
- sctp_memory_allocated
- sctp_sockets_allocated
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sctp_addto_param() can become static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

raise_softirq_irqoff no longer has any modular user.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The macro definition is bad. When calling next_net_device with
parameter name "dev", the resulting code is:
	  struct net_device *dev = dev and that leads to an unexpected
behavior. Especially when llc_core is compiled in, the kernel panics
at boot time.
The patchset change macro definition with static inline functions as
they were defined before.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The core patchset of the network namespace sent by
Eric Biederman does not do dynamic loopback creation.
So there is no call to alloc_netdev_mq which fills the
network namespace field of the netdevice.

This patch assign the loopback to the init network namespace.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add the appropriate EXPORT_SYMBOLS for proc_net_create,
proc_net_fops_create and proc_net_remove to fix errors when
compiling allmodconfig
Signed-off-by: NMark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Requested by Johannes Berg.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When the periodic IP route cache flush is done (every 600 seconds on
default configuration), some hosts suffer a lot and eventually trigger
the "soft lockup" message.

dst_run_gc() is doing a scan of a possibly huge list of dst_entries,
eventually freeing some (less than 1%) of them, while holding the
dst_lock spinlock for the whole scan.

Then it rearms a timer to redo the full thing 1/10 s later...
The slowdown can last one minute or so, depending on how active are
the tcp sessions.

This second version of the patch converts the processing from a softirq
based one to a workqueue.

Even if the list of entries in garbage_list is huge, host is still
responsive to softirqs and can make progress.

Instead of resetting gc timer to 0.1 second if one entry was freed in a
gc run, we do this if more than 10% of entries were freed.

Before patch :

Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel: Call Trace:
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff802286f0>] wake_up_process+0x10/0x20
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80251e09>] softlockup_tick+0xe9/0x110
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803cd380>] dst_run_gc+0x0/0x140
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff802376f3>] run_local_timers+0x13/0x20
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff802379c7>] update_process_times+0x57/0x90
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80216034>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x60
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff802165cc>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x80
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff8020a816>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x70
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803cd3d3>] dst_run_gc+0x53/0x140
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803cd3c6>] dst_run_gc+0x46/0x140
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80237148>] run_timer_softirq+0x148/0x1c0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff8023340c>] __do_softirq+0x6c/0xe0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff8020ad6c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8020cb34>] do_softirq+0x34/0x90
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff802331cf>] local_bh_enable_ip+0x3f/0x60
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80422913>] _spin_unlock_bh+0x13/0x20
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803dfde8>] rt_garbage_collect+0x1d8/0x320
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803cd4dd>] dst_alloc+0x1d/0xa0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803e1433>] __ip_route_output_key+0x573/0x800
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803c02e2>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x32/0x50
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803e16dc>] ip_route_output_flow+0x1c/0x60
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80400160>] tcp_v4_connect+0x150/0x610
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803ebf07>] inet_bind_bucket_create+0x17/0x60
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff8040cd16>] inet_stream_connect+0xa6/0x2c0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80422981>] _spin_lock_bh+0x11/0x30
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803c0bdf>] lock_sock_nested+0xcf/0xe0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80422981>] _spin_lock_bh+0x11/0x30
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803be551>] sys_connect+0x71/0xa0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803eee3f>] tcp_setsockopt+0x1f/0x30
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803c030f>] sock_common_setsockopt+0xf/0x20
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff803be4bd>] sys_setsockopt+0x9d/0xc0
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff8028881e>] sys_ioctl+0x5e/0x80
Aug 16 06:21:37 SRV1 kernel:  [<ffffffff80209c4e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

After patch : (RT_CACHE_DEBUG set to 2 to get following traces)

dst_total: 75469 delayed: 74109 work_perf: 141 expires: 150 elapsed: 8092 us
dst_total: 78725 delayed: 73366 work_perf: 743 expires: 400 elapsed: 8542 us
dst_total: 86126 delayed: 71844 work_perf: 1522 expires: 775 elapsed: 8849 us
dst_total: 100173 delayed: 68791 work_perf: 3053 expires: 1256 elapsed: 9748 us
dst_total: 121798 delayed: 64711 work_perf: 4080 expires: 1997 elapsed: 10146 us
dst_total: 154522 delayed: 58316 work_perf: 6395 expires: 25 elapsed: 11402 us
dst_total: 154957 delayed: 58252 work_perf: 64 expires: 150 elapsed: 6148 us
dst_total: 157377 delayed: 57843 work_perf: 409 expires: 400 elapsed: 6350 us
dst_total: 163745 delayed: 56679 work_perf: 1164 expires: 775 elapsed: 7051 us
dst_total: 176577 delayed: 53965 work_perf: 2714 expires: 1389 elapsed: 8120 us
dst_total: 198993 delayed: 49627 work_perf: 4338 expires: 1997 elapsed: 8909 us
dst_total: 226638 delayed: 46865 work_perf: 2762 expires: 2748 elapsed: 7351 us

I successfully reduced the IP route cache of many hosts by a four factor
thanks to this patch. Previously, I had to disable "ip route flush cache"
to avoid crashes.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

My bad.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We will undo this once it is actually used.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Until we support multiple network namespaces with netfilter only allow
netfilter configuration in the initial network namespace.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The simplest thing to implement is moving network devices between
namespaces.  However with the same attribute IFLA_NET_NS_PID we can
easily implement creating devices in the destination network
namespace as well.  However that is a little bit trickier so this
patch sticks to what is simple and easy.

A pid is used to identify a process that happens to be a member
of the network namespace we want to move the network device to.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL a flag to indicate
a network device is local to a single network namespace and
should never be moved.  Useful for pseudo devices that we
need an instance in each network namespace (like the loopback
device) and for any device we find that cannot handle multiple
network namespaces so we may trap them in the initial network
namespace.

This patch introduces the function dev_change_net_namespace
a function used to move a network device from one network
namespace to another.  To the network device nothing
special appears to happen, to the components of the network
stack it appears as if the network device was unregistered
in the network namespace it is in, and a new device
was registered in the network namespace the device
was moved to.

This patch sets up a namespace device destructor that
upon the exit of a network namespace moves all of the
movable network devices  to the initial network namespace
so they are not lost.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When forcibly changing the network namespace of a device
I need something that can generate a name for the device
in the new namespace without overwriting the old name.

__dev_alloc_name provides me that functionality.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>