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Adrian Bunk 28a7b327b8 [PKT_SCHED] act_simple.c: make struct simp_hash_info static
This patch makes the needlessly global struct simp_hash_info static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b4e9b520ca [NET_SCHED]: Add mask support to fwmark classifier
Support masking the nfmark value before the search. The mask value is
global for all filters contained in one instance. It can only be set
when a new instance is created, all filters must specify the same mask.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:12 -07:00
Patrick McHardy efa741656e [NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove unused size argument to check/destroy functions
The size is verified by x_tables and isn't needed by the modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy fe1cb10873 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove unused argument to target functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:33 -07:00
David S. Miller e9ce1cd3cf [PKT_SCHED]: Kill pkt_act.h inlining.
This was simply making templates of functions and mostly causing a lot
of code duplication in the classifier action modules.

We solve this more cleanly by having a common "struct tcf_common" that
hash worker functions contained once in act_api.c can work with.

Callers work with real action objects that have the common struct
plus their module specific struct members.  You go from a common
object to the higher level one using a "to_foo()" macro which makes
use of container_of() to do the dirty work.

This also kills off act_generic.h which was only used by act_simple.c
and keeping it around was more work than the it's value.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:10 -07:00
Thomas Graf 2942e90050 [RTNETLINK]: Use rtnl_unicast() for rtnetlink unicasts
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:48 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3696f625e2 [HTB]: rbtree cleanup
Add code to initialize rb tree nodes, and check for double deletion.
This is not a real fix, but I can make it trap sometimes and may
be a bandaid for: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6681

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:34 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 0cef296da9 [HTB]: Use hlist for hash lists.
Use hlist instead of list for the hash list. This saves
space, and we can check for double delete better.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:34 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 87990467d3 [HTB]: Lindent
Code was a mess in terms of indentation.  Run through Lindent
script, and cleanup the damage. Also, don't use, vim magic
comment, and substitute inline for __inline__.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:33 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 18a63e868b [HTB]: HTB_HYSTERESIS cleanup
Change the conditional compilation around HTB_HYSTERSIS
since code was splitting mid expression.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:32 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 9ac961ee05 [HTB]: Remove lock macro.
Get rid of the macro's being used to obscure the locking.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3bf72957d2 [HTB]: Remove broken debug code.
The HTB network scheduler had debug code that wouldn't compile
and confused and obfuscated the code, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:30 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 84fa7933a3 [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose
checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for
incoming packets, device supplied full checksum).

Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu d7811e623d [NET]: Drop tx lock in dev_watchdog_up
Fix lockdep warning with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM.

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:39:28PM +0000, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> 
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> swapper/0 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c02c8c46>] dev_queue_xmit+0x56/0x290
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c02c8e14>] dev_queue_xmit+0x224/0x290
> 
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

This turns out to be a genuine bug.  The queue lock and xmit lock are
intentionally taken out of order.  Two things are supposed to prevent
dead-locks from occuring:

1) When we hold the queue_lock we're supposed to only do try_lock on the
tx_lock.

2) We always drop the queue_lock after taking the tx_lock and before doing
anything else.

> 
> the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
> 
> -> #1 (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}:
>        [<c012e7b6>] lock_acquire+0x76/0xa0
>        [<c0336241>] _spin_lock_bh+0x31/0x40
>        [<c02d25a9>] dev_activate+0x69/0x120

This path obviously breaks assumption 1) and therefore can lead to ABBA
dead-locks.

I've looked at the history and there seems to be no reason for the lock
to be held at all in dev_watchdog_up.  The lock appeared in day one and
even there it was unnecessary.  In fact, people added __dev_watchdog_up
precisely in order to get around the tx lock there.

The function dev_watchdog_up is already serialised by rtnl_lock since
its only caller dev_activate is always called under it.

So here is a simple patch to remove the tx lock from dev_watchdog_up.
In 2.6.19 we can eliminate the unnecessary __dev_watchdog_up and
replace it with dev_watchdog_up.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-18 00:22:30 -07:00
Ralf Hildebrandt c0956bd251 [PKT_SCHED] cls_u32: Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:54 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim b9e2cc0f0e [PKT_SCHED]: Return ENOENT if qdisc module is unavailable
Return ENOENT if qdisc module is unavailable

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 22:59:49 -07:00
Panagiotis Issaris 0da974f4f3 [NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:51:30 -07:00
Guillaume Chazarain 89e1df74f8 [PKT_SCHED] netem: Fix slab corruption with netem (2nd try)
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB found the following bug:
netem_enqueue() in sch_netem.c gets a pointer inside a slab object:
struct netem_skb_cb *cb = (struct netem_skb_cb *)skb->cb;
But then, the slab object may be freed:
skb = skb_unshare(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)
cb is still pointing inside the freed skb, so here is a patch to
initialize cb later, and make it clear that initializing it sooner
is a bad idea.

[From Stephen Hemminger: leave cb unitialized in order to let gcc
complain in case of use before initialization]

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:45:25 -07:00
Dave Jones 2724a1a55f [PATCH] sch_htb compile fix.
net/sched/sch_htb.c: In function 'htb_change_class':
net/sched/sch_htb.c:1605: error: expected ';' before 'do_gettimeofday'

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-15 11:40:20 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger b3a6251915 [PKT_SCHED] HTB: initialize upper bound properly
The upper bound for HTB time diff needs to be scaled to PSCHED
units rather than just assuming usecs.  The field mbuffer is used
in TDIFF_SAFE(), as an upper bound.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-14 16:32:27 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 781b456a98 [MAINTAINERS]: Add proper entry for TC classifier
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-12 13:58:48 -07:00
Thomas Graf ebbaeab18b [PKT_SCHED]: act_api: Fix module leak while flushing actions
Module reference needs to be given back if message header
construction fails.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-09 11:36:23 -07:00
Thomas Graf 4fe683f50d [PKT_SCHED]: Fix error handling while dumping actions
"return -err" and blindly inheriting the error code in the netlink
failure exception handler causes errors codes to be returned as
positive value therefore making them being ignored by the caller.

May lead to sending out incomplete netlink messages.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-05 20:47:28 -07:00
Thomas Graf d152b4e1e9 [PKT_SCHED]: Return ENOENT if action module is unavailable
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-05 20:45:57 -07:00
Thomas Graf 26dab8930b [PKT_SCHED]: Fix illegal memory dereferences when dumping actions
The TCA_ACT_KIND attribute is used without checking its
availability when dumping actions therefore leading to a
value of 0x4 being dereferenced.

The use of strcmp() in tc_lookup_action_n() isn't safe
when fed with string from an attribute without enforcing
proper NUL termination.

Both bugs can be triggered with malformed netlink message
and don't require any privileges.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-05 20:45:06 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 3539c272f1 Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 18:53:46 +02:00
Herbert Xu f6a78bfcb1 [NET]: Add generic segmentation offload
This patch adds the infrastructure for generic segmentation offload.
The idea is to tap into the potential savings of TSO without hardware
support by postponing the allocation of segmented skb's until just
before the entry point into the NIC driver.

The same structure can be used to support software IPv6 TSO, as well as
UFO and segmentation offload for other relevant protocols, e.g., DCCP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:31 -07:00
Herbert Xu d4828d85d1 [NET]: Prevent transmission after dev_deactivate
The dev_deactivate function has bit-rotted since the introduction of
lockless drivers.  In particular, the spin_unlock_wait call at the end
has no effect on the xmit routine of lockless drivers.

With a little bit of work, we can make it much more useful by providing
the guarantee that when it returns, no more calls to the xmit routine
of the underlying driver will be made.

The idea is simple.  There are two entry points in to the xmit routine.
The first comes from dev_queue_xmit.  That one is easily stopped by
using synchronize_rcu.  This works because we set the qdisc to noop_qdisc
before the synchronize_rcu call.  That in turn causes all subsequent
packets sent to dev_queue_xmit to be dropped.  The synchronize_rcu call
also ensures all outstanding calls leave their critical section.

The other entry point is from qdisc_run.  Since we now have a bit that
indicates whether it's running, all we have to do is to wait until the
bit is off.

I've removed the loop to wait for __LINK_STATE_SCHED to clear.  This is
useless because netif_wake_queue can cause it to be set again.  It is
also harmless because we've disarmed qdisc_run.

I've also removed the spin_unlock_wait on xmit_lock because its only
purpose of making sure that all outstanding xmit_lock holders have
exited is also given by dev_watchdog_down.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:26 -07:00
Herbert Xu 48d83325b6 [NET]: Prevent multiple qdisc runs
Having two or more qdisc_run's contend against each other is bad because
it can induce packet reordering if the packets have to be requeued.  It
appears that this is an unintended consequence of relinquinshing the queue
lock while transmitting.  That in turn is needed for devices that spend a
lot of time in their transmit routine.

There are no advantages to be had as devices with queues are inherently
single-threaded (the loopback device is not but then it doesn't have a
queue).

Even if you were to add a queue to a parallel virtual device (e.g., bolt
a tbf filter in front of an ipip tunnel device), you would still want to
process the queue in sequence to ensure that the packets are ordered
correctly.

The solution here is to steal a bit from net_device to prevent this.

BTW, as qdisc_restart is no longer used by anyone as a module inside the
kernel (IIRC it used to with netif_wake_queue), I have not exported the
new __qdisc_run function.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-19 23:57:59 -07:00
Herbert Xu 932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 338f7566e5 [PKT_SCHED]: Potential jiffy wrap bug in dev_watchdog().
There is a potential jiffy wraparound bug in the transmit watchdog
that is easily avoided by using time_after().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-16 15:02:12 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 210525d65d [NET_SCHED]: HFSC: fix thinko in hfsc_adjust_levels()
When deleting the last child the level of a class should drop to zero.

Noticed by Andreas Mueller <andreas@stapelspeicher.org>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-11 12:22:03 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 89bbb0a361 [PKT_SCHED] netem: fix loss
The following one line fix is needed to make loss function of
netem work right when doing loss on the local host.
Otherwise, higher layers just recover.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-29 18:33:12 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 18118cdbfd [NETFILTER]: ipt action: use xt_check_target for basic verification
The targets don't do the basic verification themselves anymore so
the ipt action needs to take care of it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-24 17:27:34 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 83b950c89c [PKT_SCHED] act_police: Rename methods.
Rename policer specific _generic_ methods to be specific to
_act_police_

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:46 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1ae39a430b [NET_SCHED]: cls_u32: remove unnecessary NULL-ptr check
In both cases n can't be NULL without crashing anyway.

Coverity #78

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-23 01:16:48 -08:00
Adrian Bunk afb5bb5744 [PKT_SCHED]: Let NET_CLS_ACT no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
This option should IMHO no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:44:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 1533306186 [NET]: dev_put/dev_hold cleanup
Get rid of the old __dev_put macro that is just a hold over from pre 2.6
kernel.  And turn dev_hold into an inline instead of a macro.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:32:28 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f38c39d6ce [PKT_SCHED]: Convert sch_red to a classful qdisc
Convert sch_red to a classful qdisc. All qdiscs that maintain accurate
backlog counters are eligible as child qdiscs. When a queue limit larger
than zero is given, a bfifo qdisc is used for backwards compatibility.
Current versions of tc enforce a limit larger than zero, other users
can avoid creating the default qdisc by using zero.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:20:44 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f5539eb8ca [PKT_SCHED]: Keep backlog counter in sch_sfq
Keep backlog counter in SFQ qdisc to make it usable as child qdisc
with RED.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:01:38 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 053cfed75d [PKT_SCHED]: Restore TBF change semantic
When TBF was converted to a classful qdisc, the semantic of the limit
parameter was broken. On initilization an inner bfifo qdisc is created
for backwards compatibility, when changing parameters however the new
limit is ignored and the current child qdisc remains in place.

Always replace the child qdisc by the default bfifo when limit is above
zero, otherwise don't touch the inner qdisc. Current tc version enforce
a limit above zero, other users can avoid creating the inner qdisc by
using zero.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:01:21 -08:00
Patrick McHardy cdc7f8e362 [PKT_SCHED]: Dump child qdisc handle in sch_{atm,dsmark}
A qdisc should set tcm_info to the child qdisc handle in its class
dump function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:01:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6d037a26f0 [PKT_SCHED]: Qdisc drop operation is optional
The drop operation is optional and qdiscs must check if childs support it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:00:49 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 1c524830d0 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: pass registered match/target data to match/target functions
This allows to make decisions based on the revision (and address family
with a follow-up patch) at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:02:15 -08:00
Patrick McHardy f6e57464df [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix skb leak in error path
The skb is allocated by the function, so it needs to be freed instead
of trimmed on overrun.

Coverity #614

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12 20:39:36 -08:00
Patrick McHardy ae82af54d7 [PKT_SCHED]: Handle SCTP/DCCP in sfq_hash
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 13:01:06 -08:00
Amnon Aaronsohn dd914b4082 [PKT_SCHED] sch_prio: fix qdisc bands init
Currently when PRIO is configured to use N bands, it lets the packets be
directed to any of the bands 0..N-1. However, PRIO attaches a fifo qdisc
only to the bands that appear in the priomap; the rest of the N bands
remain with a noop qdisc attached. This patch changes PRIO's behavior so
that it attaches a fifo qdisc to all of the N bands.

Signed-off-by: Amnon Aaronsohn <bla@cs.huji.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:24:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy dca80b962a [PKT_SCHED]: Change default clock source to gettimeofday
The default of using jiffies is very bad and results in
underutilization except with very low bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-13 14:36:55 -08:00
Harald Welte 2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables.  In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.

o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
  wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
  are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
  to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
  include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
  around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers

Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00