Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (867 commits)
  [SKY2]: status polling loop (post merge)
  [NET]: Fix NAPI completion handling in some drivers.
  [TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
  [TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
  [TCP]: No need to re-count fackets_out/sacked_out at RTO
  [TCP]: Extract tcp_match_queue_to_sack from sacktag code
  [TCP]: Kill almost unused variable pcount from sacktag
  [TCP]: Fix mark_head_lost to ignore R-bit when trying to mark L
  [TCP]: Add bytes_acked (ABC) clearing to FRTO too
  [IPv6]: Update setsockopt(IPV6_MULTICAST_IF) to support RFC 3493, try2
  [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add missing ip6t_modulename aliases
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening
  [QETH]: fix qeth_main.c
  [NETLINK]: fib_frontend build fixes
  [IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)
  [9P]: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  [NET]: Fix dev_put() and dev_hold() comments
  [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
  [NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognition
  [NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskb
  ...

Fix up conflicts manually in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
and my new least favourite crap, the "mod_devicetable" support in the
files include/linux/mod_devicetable.h and scripts/mod/file2alias.c.

(The latter files seem to be explicitly _designed_ to get conflicts when
different subsystems work with them - that have an absolutely horrid
lack of subsystem separation!)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
index 37869295fc7..d0f71fc7f78 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ dev->hard_start_xmit:
 	has to lock by itself when needed. It is recommended to use a try lock
 	for this and return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED when the spin lock fails.
 	The locking there should also properly protect against 
-	set_multicast_list.
+	set_multicast_list. Note that the use of NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecated.
+	Dont use it for new drivers.
 
 	Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer),
 	         will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
@@ -95,9 +96,13 @@ dev->set_multicast_list:
 	Synchronization: netif_tx_lock spinlock.
 	Context: BHs disabled
 
-dev->poll:
-	Synchronization: __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit in dev->state.  See
-		dev_close code and comments in net/core/dev.c for more info.
+struct napi_struct synchronization rules
+========================================
+napi->poll:
+	Synchronization: NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit in napi->state.  Device
+		driver's dev->close method will invoke napi_disable() on
+		all NAPI instances which will do a sleeping poll on the
+		NAPI_STATE_SCHED napi->state bit, waiting for all pending
+		NAPI activity to cease.
 	Context: softirq
 	         will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
-