| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Revision 0.21: Uses the new generic socket option code. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Revision 0.22: Gcc clean ups and drop out device registration. Use the |
| 4 | new multi-protocol edition of hard_header |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Revision 0.23: IPX /proc by Mark Evans. Adding a route will |
| 7 | will overwrite any existing route to the same network. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Revision 0.24: Supports new /proc with no 4K limit |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Revision 0.25: Add ephemeral sockets, passive local network |
| 12 | identification, support for local net 0 and |
| 13 | multiple datalinks <Greg Page> |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Revision 0.26: Device drop kills IPX routes via it. (needed for module) |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Revision 0.27: Autobind <Mark Evans> |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Revision 0.28: Small fix for multiple local networks <Thomas Winder> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Revision 0.29: Assorted major errors removed <Mark Evans> |
| 22 | Small correction to promisc mode error fix <Alan Cox> |
| 23 | Asynchronous I/O support. Changed to use notifiers |
| 24 | and the newer packet_type stuff. Assorted major |
| 25 | fixes <Alejandro Liu> |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Revision 0.30: Moved to net/ipx/... <Alan Cox> |
| 28 | Don't set address length on recvfrom that errors. |
| 29 | Incorrect verify_area. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Revision 0.31: New sk_buffs. This still needs a lot of |
| 32 | testing. <Alan Cox> |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Revision 0.32: Using sock_alloc_send_skb, firewall hooks. <Alan Cox> |
| 35 | Supports sendmsg/recvmsg |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Revision 0.33: Internal network support, routing changes, uses a |
| 38 | protocol private area for ipx data. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Revision 0.34: Module support. <Jim Freeman> |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Revision 0.35: Checksum support. <Neil Turton>, hooked in by <Alan Cox> |
| 43 | Handles WIN95 discovery packets <Volker Lendecke> |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Revision 0.36: Internal bump up for 2.1 |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Revision 0.37: Began adding POSIXisms. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Revision 0.38: Asynchronous socket stuff made current. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Revision 0.39: SPX interfaces |
| 52 | |
| 53 | Revision 0.40: Tiny SIOCGSTAMP fix (chris@cybernet.co.nz) |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Revision 0.41: 802.2TR removed (p.norton@computer.org) |
| 56 | Fixed connecting to primary net, |
| 57 | Automatic binding on send & receive, |
| 58 | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptogimp@geocities.com> |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Revision 042: Multithreading - use spinlocks and refcounting to |
| 61 | protect some structures: ipx_interface sock list, list |
| 62 | of ipx interfaces, etc. |
| 63 | Bugfixes - do refcounting on net_devices, check function |
| 64 | results, etc. Thanks to davem and freitag for |
| 65 | suggestions and guidance. |
| 66 | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>, |
| 67 | November, 2000 |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Revision 043: Shared SKBs, don't mangle packets, some cleanups |
| 70 | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>, |
| 71 | December, 2000 |
| 72 | |
| 73 | Revision 044: Call ipxitf_hold on NETDEV_UP - acme |
| 74 | |
| 75 | Revision 045: fix PPROP routing bug - acme |
| 76 | |
| 77 | Revision 046: Further fixes to PPROP, ipxitf_create_internal was |
| 78 | doing an unneeded MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, implement |
| 79 | sysctl for ipx_pprop_broacasting, fix the ipx sysctl |
| 80 | handling, making it dynamic, some cleanups, thanks to |
| 81 | Petr Vandrovec for review and good suggestions. (acme) |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Revision 047: Cleanups, CodingStyle changes, move the ncp connection |
| 84 | hack out of line - acme |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Revision 048: Use sk->protinfo to store the pointer to IPX private |
| 87 | area, remove af_ipx from sk->protinfo and move ipx_opt |
| 88 | to include/net/ipx.h, use IPX_SK like DecNET, etc - acme |
| 89 | |
| 90 | Revision 049: SPX support dropped, see comment in ipx_create - acme |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Revision 050: Use seq_file for proc stuff, moving it to ipx_proc.c - acme |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Other fixes: |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Protect the module by a MOD_INC_USE_COUNT/MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT pair. Also, now |
| 97 | usage count is managed this way: |
| 98 | -Count one if the auto_interface mode is on |
| 99 | -Count one per configured interface |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca) |