netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	bruce.w.allan@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	mchehab@infradead.org, john.ronciak@intel.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/4] net: change the way mc_list is accessed
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:51:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091022135120.GC2868@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> (raw)

In a struct net_device, multicast addresses are stored using a self-made linked
list. To convert this to list_head list there would be needed to do the change
in all (literally all) network device drivers at once.

To solve this situation and also to make device drivers' code prettier I'm
introducing several multicast list helpers which can (and in the future they
should) be used to access mc list. Once all drivers will use these helpers,
we can easily convert to list_head.

The part of this patchset are also 3 examples of a usage of the helpers.

Kindly asking for review.

Thanks,

Jirka

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA
is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your
developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay 
ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-22 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-22 13:51 Jiri Pirko [this message]
2009-10-22 13:52 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/4] net: introduce mc list helpers Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 14:18   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-22 14:28     ` Jiri Pirko
2009-10-29 15:19     ` Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 13:53 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/4] 8139too: use mc helpers to access multicast list Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 13:54 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/4] e1000e: " Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 13:54 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/4] net: change the way mc_list is accessed Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 13:56   ` Jiri Pirko
2009-10-22 13:57 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 4/4] dvb: dvb_net: use mc helpers to access multicast list Jiri Pirko

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20091022135120.GC2868@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com \
    --to=jpirko@redhat.com \
    --cc=bruce.w.allan@intel.com \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=eric.dumazet@gmail.com \
    --cc=jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com \
    --cc=jesse.brandeburg@intel.com \
    --cc=john.ronciak@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-media@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mchehab@infradead.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).