This improves the bridge local receive path by avoiding going
through another softirq. The bridge receive path is already being called
from a netif_receive_skb() there is no point in going through another
receiveq round trip.
Recursion is limited because bridge can never be a port of a bridge
so handle_bridge() always returns.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Avoid poisoning of the bridge forwarding table by frames that have been
dropped by filtering. This prevents spoofed source addresses on hostile
side of bridge from causing packet leakage, a small but possible security
risk.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make features of the bridge pseudo-device be a subset of the underlying
devices. Motivated by Xen and others who use bridging to do failover.
Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umrella.ro>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kobject_add() and kobject_del() don't emit hotplug events anymore.
We need to do it ourselves now.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg 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!
Patrick McHardy