Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  pxa168_eth: fix race in transmit path.
  ipv4, ping: Remove duplicate icmp.h include
  netxen: fix race in skb->len access
  sgi-xp: fix a use after free
  hp100: fix an skb->len race
  netpoll: copy dev name of slaves to struct netpoll
  ipv4: fix multicast losses
  r8169: fix static initializers.
  inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit()
  gigaset: call module_put before restart of if_open()
  farsync: add module_put to error path in fst_open()
  net: rfs: enable RFS before first data packet is received
  fs_enet: fix freescale FCC ethernet dp buffer alignment
  netdev: bfin_mac: fix memory leak when freeing dma descriptors
  vlan: don't call ndo_vlan_rx_register on hardware that doesn't have vlan support
  caif: Bugfix - XOFF removed channel from caif-mux
  tun: teach the tun/tap driver to support netpoll
  dp83640: drop PHY status frames in the driver.
  dp83640: fix phy status frame event parsing
  phylib: Allow BCM63XX PHY to be selected only on BCM63XX.
  ...

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 74e9405..5235f48 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -460,7 +460,23 @@ static u32 tun_net_fix_features(struct net_device *dev, u32 features)
 
 	return (features & tun->set_features) | (features & ~TUN_USER_FEATURES);
 }
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+static void tun_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Tun only receives frames when:
+	 * 1) the char device endpoint gets data from user space
+	 * 2) the tun socket gets a sendmsg call from user space
+	 * Since both of those are syncronous operations, we are guaranteed
+	 * never to have pending data when we poll for it
+	 * so theres nothing to do here but return.
+	 * We need this though so netpoll recognizes us as an interface that
+	 * supports polling, which enables bridge devices in virt setups to
+	 * still use netconsole
+	 */
+	return;
+}
+#endif
 static const struct net_device_ops tun_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_uninit		= tun_net_uninit,
 	.ndo_open		= tun_net_open,
@@ -468,6 +484,9 @@ static const struct net_device_ops tun_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_start_xmit		= tun_net_xmit,
 	.ndo_change_mtu		= tun_net_change_mtu,
 	.ndo_fix_features	= tun_net_fix_features,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+	.ndo_poll_controller	= tun_poll_controller,
+#endif
 };
 
 static const struct net_device_ops tap_netdev_ops = {
@@ -480,6 +499,9 @@ static const struct net_device_ops tap_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_set_multicast_list	= tun_net_mclist,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address	= eth_mac_addr,
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+	.ndo_poll_controller	= tun_poll_controller,
+#endif
 };
 
 /* Initialize net device. */