This patch allows the user to forcibly enable/disable ports as
having multicast routers attached.  A port with a multicast router
will receive all multicast traffic.

The value 0 disables it completely.  The default is 1 which lets
the system automatically detect the presence of routers (currently
this is limited to picking up queries), and 2 means that the port
will always receive all multicast traffic.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port the frame was received on.

Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual
Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities.

You can find additional information on VEPA here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/evb/
http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2009/new-hudson-vepa_seminar-20090514d.pdf
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2009jul/20090719-congdon.pdf

An additional patch 'bridge-utils: Add 'hairpin' port forwarding mode'
is provided to allow configuring hairpin mode from userspace tools.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Congdon <paul.congdon@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnna Fischer <anna.fischer@hp.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Holding rtnl_lock when we are unregistering the sysfs files can
deadlock if we unconditionally take rtnl_lock in a sysfs file.  So fix
it with the now familiar patter of: rtnl_trylock and syscall_restart()
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The kobject in the bridge code is only used for registering with sysfs,
not for any lifespan rules.  This patch changes it to be only a pointer
and use the simpler api for this kind of thing.

Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The RSTP daemon needs to be able to flush all dynamic forwarding
entries in the case of topology change.

This is a temporary interface. It will change to a netlink interface
before RSTP daemon is officially released.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
issues, if it wants to.

Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm
driver fixes.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Refactor how the bridge code interacts with kobject system.
It should still use kobjects even if not using sysfs.
Fix the error unwind handling in br_add_if.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

kobject_add() and kobject_del() don't emit hotplug events anymore.
We need to do it ourselves now.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!