In case both nodes are "inconsistent", invalidate would
have started a resync anyways, without a chance to ever
succeed, just filling the logs with warning messages.

Simply disallow that state change,
re-using the SS_NO_UP_TO_DATE_DISK return value.

This also changes the corresponding error string to
"Need access to UpToDate Data" -- I found the
"Refusing to be Primary without at least one UpToDate disk"
answer misleading in some situations anyways.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

Don't forget to drain the digest in case we cannot satisfy a
checksum based resync or online-verify request.

It would additionally cause a protocoll error,
dropping the connection.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

block_id may be ID_SYNCER,
as well as checksum based resync request magic, or online verify magic.

Let's just drop that ASSERT.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

commit e4f925e1
Author: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 14:18:41 2010 +0100

    drbd: Do not upgrade state to Outdated if already Inconsistent

prevented the necessary state transition for attaching while connected
(Diskless -> Consistent respectively Outdated).
This is the fix for the fix.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

There was a race condition:
  In a situation with a SyncSource+Primary and a SyncTarget+Secondary node,
  and a resync dependency to some other device. After both nodes decided
  to do the resync, the other device finishes its resync process.
  At that time SyncSource already sent the P_SYNC_UUID packet, and
  already updated its peer disk state to Inconsistent.
  The SyncTarget node waits for the P_SYNC_UUID and sends a state packet
  to report the resync dependency change. That packet still carries
  a disk state of Outdated.

Impact:
  If application writes come in, during that time on the Primary node,
  those do not get replicated, and the out-of-sync counter gets increased.
  => The completion of resync is not detected on the primary node.
  => stalled.
  Those blocks get resync'ed with the next resync, since the are get
  marked as out-of-sync in the bitmap.

In order to fix this, we filter out that wrong state change in the
sanitize_state() function.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

To document that we know about deprecation of proc_create,
even though we are not affected, as we don't use the ->data member,
open code proc_create_data(..., NULL);
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

Filesystems with delalloc support may dirty inode during writepages.
As result inode will have dirty metadata flags even after write_inode.
In fact we have two dedicated functions for proper data and metadata
writeback. It is reasonable to separate flags updates in two stages.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15906Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

When umount calls sync_filesystem(), we first do a WB_SYNC_NONE
writeback to kick off writeback of pending dirty inodes, then follow
that up with a WB_SYNC_ALL to wait for it. Since umount already holds
the sb s_umount mutex, WB_SYNC_NONE ends up doing nothing and all
writeback happens as WB_SYNC_ALL. This can greatly slow down umount,
since WB_SYNC_ALL writeback is a data integrity operation and thus
a bigger hammer than simple WB_SYNC_NONE. For barrier aware file systems
it's a lot slower.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Prior to 2.6.32, setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs disabled
periodic dirty writeback from kupdate. This got broken and now causes
excessive sys CPU usage if set to zero, as we'll keep beating on
schedule().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NJustin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Make the PARIDE menu be displayed correctly, with proper/expected
indentation, by moving the GDROM kconfig symbol, which was
splitting the PARIDE kconfig symbol from its dependent symbols.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

blk_init_queue() allocates the request_queue structure and then
initializes it as needed (request_fn, elevator, etc).

Split initialization out to blk_init_allocated_queue_node.
Introduce blk_init_allocated_queue wrapper function to model existing
blk_init_queue and blk_init_queue_node interfaces.

Export elv_register_queue to allow a newly added elevator to be
registered with sysfs.  Export elv_unregister_queue for symmetry.

These changes allow DM to initialize a device's request_queue with more
precision.  In particular, DM no longer unconditionally initializes a
full request_queue (elevator et al).  It only does so for a
request-based DM device.
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

goto has its place, but lets cut back on some of the more
frivolous uses of it.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Conflicts:
	fs/block_dev.c
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig)
failed like this:

fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c: In function 'nilfs_discard_segments':
fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:673: error: 'DISCARD_FL_BARRIER' undeclared (first use in this function)

Caused by commit fbd9b09a ("blkdev:
generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functions") interacting with commit
e902ec99 ("nilfs2: issue discard request
after cleaning segments") (which netered Linus' tree on about March 4 -
before v2.6.34-rc1).
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Just cast the page size to sector_t, that will always fit.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  x86/PCI: compute Address Space length rather than using _LEN
  x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END

If dentry found stale happens to be a root of disconnected tree, we
can't d_drop() it; its d_hash is actually part of s_anon and d_drop()
would simply hide it from shrink_dcache_for_umount(), leading to
all sorts of fun, including busy inodes on umount and oopsen after
that.

Bug had been there since at least 2006 (commit c636eb already has it),
so it's definitely -stable fodder.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6:
  regulator: fix enabling regulator issue on max8925

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  sfc: Change falcon_probe_board() to fail for unsupported boards
  sfc: Always close net device at the end of a disabling reset
  sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics
  sctp: Fix oops when sending queued ASCONF chunks
  sctp: fix to calc the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length correctly is set
  sctp: per_cpu variables should be in bh_disabled section
  sctp: fix potential reference of a freed pointer
  sctp: avoid irq lock inversion while call sk->sk_data_ready()
  Revert "tcp: bind() fix when many ports are bound"
  net/usb: add sierra_net.c driver
  cdc_ether: fix autosuspend for mbm devices
  bluetooth: handle l2cap_create_connless_pdu() errors
  gianfar: Wait for both RX and TX to stop
  ipheth: potential null dereferences on error path
  smc91c92_cs: spin_unlock_irqrestore before calling smc_interrupt()
  drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: add device "Allied Telesyn AT-USB10 USB Ethernet Adapter"
  bnx2: Update version to 2.0.9.
  bnx2: Prevent "scheduling while atomic" warning with cnic, bonding and vlan.
  bnx2: Fix lost MSI-X problem on 5709 NICs.
  cxgb3: Wait longer for control packets on initialization
  ...

The driver needs specific PHY and board support code for each SFC4000
board; there is no point trying to continue if it is missing.
Currently unsupported boards can trigger an 'oops'.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes a regression introduced by commit
eb9f6744 "sfc: Implement ethtool
reset operation".
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The original code would wait indefinitely if MAC stats DMA failed.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When we finish processing ASCONF_ACK chunk, we try to send
the next queued ASCONF.  This action runs the sctp state
machine recursively and it's not prepared to do so.

kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:790!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/module/ipv6/initstate
Modules linked in: sha256_generic sctp libcrc32c ipv6 dm_multipath
uinput 8139too i2c_piix4 8139cp mii i2c_core pcspkr virtio_net joydev
floppy virtio_blk virtio_pci [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc4 #15 /Bochs
EIP: 0060:[<c044a2ef>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
EIP is at add_timer+0xd/0x1b
EAX: cecbab14 EBX: 000000f0 ECX: c0957b1c EDX: 03595cf4
ESI: cecba800 EDI: cf276f00 EBP: c0957aa0 ESP: c0957aa0
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0956000 task=c0988ba0 task.ti=c0956000)
Stack:
 c0957ae0 d1851214 c0ab62e4 c0ab5f26 0500ffff 00000004 00000005 00000004
<0> 00000000 d18694fd 00000004 1666b892 cecba800 cecba800 c0957b14
00000004
<0> c0957b94 d1851b11 ceda8b00 cecba800 cf276f00 00000001 c0957b14
000000d0
Call Trace:
 [<d1851214>] ? sctp_side_effects+0x607/0xdfc [sctp]
 [<d1851b11>] ? sctp_do_sm+0x108/0x159 [sctp]
 [<d1863386>] ? sctp_pname+0x0/0x1d [sctp]
 [<d1861a56>] ? sctp_primitive_ASCONF+0x36/0x3b [sctp]
 [<d185657c>] ? sctp_process_asconf_ack+0x2a4/0x2d3 [sctp]
 [<d184e35c>] ? sctp_sf_do_asconf_ack+0x1dd/0x2b4 [sctp]
 [<d1851ac1>] ? sctp_do_sm+0xb8/0x159 [sctp]
 [<d1863334>] ? sctp_cname+0x0/0x52 [sctp]
 [<d1854377>] ? sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0xac/0xe1 [sctp]
 [<d1858f0f>] ? sctp_inq_push+0x2d/0x30 [sctp]
 [<d186329d>] ? sctp_rcv+0x797/0x82e [sctp]
Tested-by: NWei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NYuansong Qiao <ysqiao@research.ait.ie>
Signed-off-by: NShuaijun Zhang <szhang@research.ait.ie>
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When calculating the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length, we should not
only account the length of parameters, but also the parameters
zero padding length, such as AUTH HMACS parameter and CHUNKS
parameter. Without the parameters zero padding length we may get
following oops.

skb_over_panic: text:ce2068d2 len:130 put:6 head:cac3fe00 data:cac3fe00 tail:0xcac3fe82 end:0xcac3fe80 dev:<NULL>
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:127!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/module/aes_generic/initstate
Modules linked in: authenc ......

Pid: 4102, comm: sctp_darn Tainted: G      D    2.6.34-rc2 #6
EIP: 0060:[<c0607630>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 0
EIP is at skb_over_panic+0x37/0x3e
EAX: 00000078 EBX: c07c024b ECX: c07c02b9 EDX: cb607b78
ESI: 00000000 EDI: cac3fe7a EBP: 00000002 ESP: cb607b74
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process sctp_darn (pid: 4102, ti=cb607000 task=cabdc990 task.ti=cb607000)
Stack:
 c07c02b9 ce2068d2 00000082 00000006 cac3fe00 cac3fe00 cac3fe82 cac3fe80
<0> c07c024b cac3fe7c cac3fe7a c0608dec ca986e80 ce2068d2 00000006 0000007a
<0> cb8120ca ca986e80 cb812000 00000003 cb8120c4 ce208a25 cb8120ca cadd9400
Call Trace:
 [<ce2068d2>] ? sctp_addto_chunk+0x45/0x85 [sctp]
 [<c0608dec>] ? skb_put+0x2e/0x32
 [<ce2068d2>] ? sctp_addto_chunk+0x45/0x85 [sctp]
 [<ce208a25>] ? sctp_make_init+0x279/0x28c [sctp]
 [<c0686a92>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x30
 [<ce1fdc0b>] ? sctp_sf_do_prm_asoc+0x2b/0x7b [sctp]
 [<ce202823>] ? sctp_do_sm+0xa0/0x14a [sctp]
 [<ce2133b9>] ? sctp_pname+0x0/0x14 [sctp]
 [<ce211d72>] ? sctp_primitive_ASSOCIATE+0x2b/0x31 [sctp]
 [<ce20f3cf>] ? sctp_sendmsg+0x7a0/0x9eb [sctp]
 [<c064eb1e>] ? inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x43
 [<c04244b7>] ? task_tick_fair+0x2d/0xd9
 [<c06031e1>] ? sock_sendmsg+0xa7/0xc1
 [<c0416afe>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
 [<c0425123>] ? dequeue_task_fair+0x34/0x19b
 [<c0446abb>] ? sched_clock_local+0x17/0x11e
 [<c052ea87>] ? _copy_from_user+0x2b/0x10c
 [<c060ab3a>] ? verify_iovec+0x3c/0x6a
 [<c06035ca>] ? sys_sendmsg+0x186/0x1e2
 [<c042176b>] ? __wake_up_common+0x34/0x5b
 [<c04240c2>] ? __wake_up+0x2c/0x3b
 [<c057e35c>] ? tty_wakeup+0x43/0x47
 [<c04430f2>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x16/0x24
 [<c0580c94>] ? n_tty_read+0x5b8/0x65e
 [<c042be02>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x8
 [<c0604e0e>] ? sys_socketcall+0x17f/0x1cd
 [<c040264c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22
Code: 0f 45 de 53 ff b0 98 00 00 00 ff b0 94 ......
EIP: [<c0607630>] skb_over_panic+0x37/0x3e SS:ESP 0068:cb607b74

To reproduce:

# modprobe sctp
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/sctp/addip_enable
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/sctp/auth_enable
# sctp_test -H 3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e -P 800 -l
# sctp_darn -H 3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e -P 900 -h 192.168.0.21 -p 800 -I -s -t
sctp_darn ready to send...
3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e:900-192.168.0.21:800 Interactive mode> bindx-add=192.168.0.21
3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e:900-192.168.0.21:800 Interactive mode> bindx-add=192.168.1.21
3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e:900-192.168.0.21:800 Interactive mode> snd=10

------------------------------------------------------------------
eth0 has addresses: 3ffe:501:ffff:100:20c:29ff:fe4d:f37e and 192.168.0.21
eth1 has addresses: 192.168.1.21
------------------------------------------------------------------
Reported-by: NGeorge Cheimonidis <gchimon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NWei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Since the change of the atomics to percpu variables, we now
have to disable BH in process context when touching percpu variables.
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When sctp attempts to update an assocition, it removes any
addresses that were not in the updated INITs.  However, the loop
may attempt to refrence a transport with address after removing it.
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sk->sk_data_ready() of sctp socket can be called from both BH and non-BH
contexts, but the default sk->sk_data_ready(), sock_def_readable(), can
not be used in this case. Therefore, we have to make a new function
sctp_data_ready() to grab sk->sk_data_ready() with BH disabling.

=========================================================
[ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
2.6.33-rc6 #129
---------------------------------------------------------
sctp_darn/1517 just changed the state of lock:
 (clock-AF_INET){++.?..}, at: [<c06aab60>] sock_def_readable+0x20/0x80
but this lock took another, SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
 (slock-AF_INET){+.-...}

and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by sctp_darn/1517:
 #0:  (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.+.}, at: [<cdfe363d>] sctp_sendmsg+0x23d/0xc00 [sctp]
Signed-off-by: NWei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This reverts two commits:

fda48a0d
tcp: bind() fix when many ports are bound

and a follow-on fix for it:

6443bb1f
ipv6: Fix inet6_csk_bind_conflict()

It causes problems with binding listening sockets when time-wait
sockets from a previous instance still are alive.

It's too late to keep fiddling with this so late in the -rc
series, and we'll deal with it in net-next-2.6 instead.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We should return the cfq_group for this case, not NULL.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

- Add bio_batch helper primitive. This is rather generic primitive
  for submitting/waiting a complex request which consists of several
  bios.
- blkdev_issue_zeroout() generate number of zero filed write bios.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Move blkdev_issue_discard from blk-barrier.c because it is
not barrier related.
Later the file will be populated by other helpers.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

In some places caller don't want to wait a request to complete.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common
set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

ACPI _CRS Address Space Descriptors have _MIN, _MAX, and _LEN.  Linux has
been computing Address Spaces as [_MIN to _MIN + _LEN - 1].  Based on the
tests in the bug reports below, Windows apparently uses [_MIN to _MAX].

Per spec (ACPI 4.0, Table 6-40), for _CRS fixed-size, fixed location
descriptors, "_LEN must be (_MAX - _MIN + 1)", and when that's true, it
doesn't matter which way we compute the end.  But of course, there are
BIOSes that don't follow this rule, and we're better off if Linux handles
those exceptions the same way as Windows.

This patch makes Linux use [_MIN to _MAX], as Windows seems to do.  This
effectively reverts d558b483 and 03db42ad and replaces them with
simpler code.

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14337 (round)
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15480 (truncate)
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6:
  pcmcia: fix matching rules for pseudo-multi-function cards
  pcmcia: pcmcia_dev_present bugfix

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  coda: move backing-dev.h kernel include inside __KERNEL__
  mtd: ensure that bdi entries are properly initialized and registered
  Move mtd_bdi_*mappable to mtdcore.c
  btrfs: convert to using bdi_setup_and_register()
  Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi
  drbd: Terminate a connection early if sending the protocol fails
  drbd: fix memory leak
  Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure
  smbfs: add bdi backing to mount session
  ncpfs: add bdi backing to mount session
  exofs: add bdi backing to mount session
  ecryptfs: add bdi backing to mount session
  coda: add bdi backing to mount session
  cifs: add bdi backing to mount session
  afs: add bdi backing to mount session.
  9p: add bdi backing to mount session
  bdi: add helper function for doing init and register of a bdi for a file system
  block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  watchdog: booke_wdt: fix build - unconstify watchdog_info
  watchdog: sbc_fitpc2_wdt: fixed "scheduling while atomic" bug.
  watchdog: sbc_fitpc2_wdt: fixed I/O operations order
  Watchdog: sb_wdog.c: Fix sibyte watchdog initialization

Fix regulator enabling issue that is caused by typo error in is_enabled().
Signed-off-by: NHaojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>
Acked-by: NMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: NLiam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>

Otherwise we must export backing-dev.h as well, which doesn't make
any sense.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Re-submitted based on comments from netdev community.
Summary of the changes:
1. Improved error handling.
2. Added the missing timeout arguments to usb_control_msg().

The following is a new Linux driver which exposes certain models of Sierra
Wireless modems to the operating system as Network Interface Cards (NICs).

This driver requires a version of the sierra.c driver which supports
blacklisting to work properly. The blacklist in sierra.c rejects the interfaces
claimed by sierra_net.c. Likewise, the sierra_net.c driver only accepts
(i.e. whitelists) the interface(s) used for USB-to-WWAN traffic.
The version of sierra.c which supports blacklisting is
available from the sierra wireless knowledge base page for older kernels. It is
also available in Linux kernel starting from version 2.6.31.

This driver works with all Sierra Wireless devices configured with PID=68A3
like USB305, USB306 provided the corresponding firmware version is I2.0
(for USB305) or M3.0 (for USB306) and later.
This driver will not work with earlier firmware versions than the ones shown
above. In this case the driver will issue an error message indicating
incompatibility and will not serve the device's USB-to-WWAN interface.

Sierra_net.c sits atop a pre-existing Linux driver called usbnet.c.
A series of hook functions are provided in sierra_net.c which are called by
usbnet.c in response to a particular condition such as receipt or transmission
of a data packet. As such, usbnet.c does most of the work of making
a modem appear to the system as a network device and for properly exchanging
traffic between the USB subsystem and the Network card interface.
Sierra_net.c is concerned with managing the data exchanged between the
USB-to-WWAN interface and the upper layers of the operating system.
Signed-off-by: NElina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: NRory Filer <rfiler@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>