net/ipx/ChangeLog

   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)