This patch revamps TIPC's print buffer subsystem to eliminate
support for arbitrary chains of print buffers, which were
rarely needed and difficult to use safely.

In its place, print buffers can now be configured to echo their
output to the system console.  This provides an equivalent for
the only chaining currently utilized by TIPC, in a faster and
more compact manner.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch allows TIPC to process incoming messages that are
stored in a fragmented sk_buff, by forcing the linearization
of any such messages it receives.

Note: This is an interim solution to allow TIPC to operate with
Ethernet devices that generate non-linear buffers (such as the
gianfar driver), until such time as the rest of TIPC is enhanced
to handle sk_buffs with multiple data areas.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch causes TIPC to allocate fast clonable sk_buffs,
rather than standard ones.  This speeds up the cloning
operation done by the link code each time a message is sent
off-node.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch eliminates a null pointer check when discarding a
TIPC message buffer, since kfree_skb() already handles this
situation.

Acknowledgements to Florian Westphal (fw@strlen.de> for
suggesting this enhancement.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch eliminates warnings about undeclared symbols.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch enhances TIPC's Ethernet support to include VLAN interfaces.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch allows the compiler to optimize out any code that tries to
send debugging output to the null print buffer (TIPC_NULL), a capability
that was unintentionally broken during the recent print buffer rework.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This change modifies TIPC's print buffer code as follows:
1) Now supports small print buffers (min. size reduced from 512 bytes to 64)
2) Now uses TIPC_NULL print buffer structure to indicate null device
   instead of NULL pointer (this simplified error handling)
3) Fixed misuse of console buffer structure by tipc_dump()
4) Added and corrected comments in various places
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The recent change to direct inspection of bundle buffer tailroom did not
account for the possiblity of unrequested tailroom added by skb_alloc(),
thereby allowing a bundle to be created that exceeds the current link MTU.
An additional check now ensures that bundling works correctly no matter
if the bundle buffer is smaller, larger, or equal to the link MTU.
Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds a tipc_ prefix to all externally visible symbols.
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>

Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>

Updated copyright notice to include the year the file was
actually created. Information about file creation dates
was extracted from the files in the old CVS repository
at tipc.sourceforge.net.
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>

The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson
have been merged into one.
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>

Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>

The license header in each file now more clearly state that this
code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only
evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c.
Signed-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>

TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for
intra cluster communication. For more information see
http://tipc.sourceforge.netSigned-off-by: NPer Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>