[PATCH] netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()

2008-02-15 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch avoids a null pointer dereference when we read local_mac for netconsole in configfs and shows default local mac address value. A null pointer dereference occurs when we call show_local_mac() via local_mac entry in configfs before we set

Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 9/9] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs

2007-07-12 Thread Keiichi KII
} > + netconsole_target_put(nt); > } > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags); > } I created the following patch for performing some tests. If there is nothing wrong with the patch, I'm going to continue to test. Signed-off-by: Keiich

Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 -mm 0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability

2007-07-11 Thread Keiichi KII
Hi Satyam, I'm going to test/review these patches and report the result of tests on IA64/x86 until this Friday. > [0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability > > This patchset is a rework of the original idea and patches posted by > Keiichi Kii and Takayos

Re: [PATCH -mm 8/9] netconsole: Update documentation for dynamic reconfigurability

2007-07-05 Thread Keiichi KII
n't have enough time now. So I will check your patches more specific at the weekend. Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/9] netconsole: Multiple targets and dynamic reconfigurability

2007-07-04 Thread Keiichi KII
ld I add it to each patch and submit them to this list again? Anybody could give me an advice? -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a messag

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-21 Thread Keiichi KII
ot;network_interface" value is "eth0")? I'm going to search configfs and modify interface to configfs. Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-21 Thread Keiichi KII
make_netdev_class_name() here. I'd definitely recommend not obfuscating this simple functionality here. I understand. The wrapper method such as make_netdev_class_name() isn't appropriate in this case. Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
andy for summary type tables. 4. Netlink does feel like overkill for this. Although newer generic netlink makes it easier. So, I implemented ioctls to add/remove port like this patch on the tty driver. But I'm going to search configfs. Thank you for you information. Thanks -- Keiichi

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
rn -ENOMEM; Just call kasprintf() directly, why the obfuscation? I drew upon dev_change_name() method in net/core/dev.c. Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
t moving this up, but I'm misplacing the abobe code? or it isn't appropriate about coding style? Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the bo

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 3/7] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
. +static int miscdev_configured; Is this really required? We just return with error if misc_register() fails during module init time itself, so it's not really useful ever, is it? You're right. It isn't required. Thanks -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Platform Development Division E-mail

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We add ioctls for adding/removing target. If we use NETCONSOLE_ADD_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically add netconsole target. If we use NETCONSOLE_REMOVE_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically remoe netconsole target. We attach a sample program for ioctl.

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 7/7] update documentation

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> update Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt - how to use sysfs for dynamic configurability - how to use ioctl for dynamic configurability Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: mm/Documentation/networking/ne

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 5/7] switch function of netpoll

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are unable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We use symbolic link for net_device. The link in sysfs represents the corresponding network etherdevice. -+- /sys/class/misc/ |-+- netconsole/ |-+- port1/ | |--- id [r--r--r--] id | |--- net: [r--r--r--] net_dev: eth

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 2/7] support multiple logging

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes for supporting multiple logging agents. 1. extend netconsole to multiple netpolls To send kernel messages to multiple logging agents, extend netcosnole to be able to use multiple netpolls. Each netpoll

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 3/7] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 1/7] marking __init

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following cleanups. - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and init_netconsole()). Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Takay

[RFC][PATCH -mm take5 0/7] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2007-06-13 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-25 Thread Keiichi KII
/console because of the above comments. Thank you for your comments. Any comments very welcome. -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-24 Thread Keiichi KII
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:51:13 +0900 Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I started to do some cleanups and fixups here, but abandoned it when it was all getting a bit large. Here are some fixes against this patch: I'm going to fix my patches by following your reviews and send new

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-24 Thread Keiichi KII
ay that we had better use procfs instead of sysfs to show the configurations of netconsole? If so, I have a question. I thought that "procfs use things related to process as far as possible". Is it no problem to use procfs here? -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Cent

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-20 Thread Keiichi KII
Please include an update to Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt OK, I update the documnet for the added functions in next patches. Thank you for your comments. -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-20 Thread Keiichi KII
ments and reviews. -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 6/6] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We add ioctls for adding/removing target. If we use NETCONSOLE_ADD_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically add netconsole target. If we use NETCONSOLE_REMOVE_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically remoe netconsole target. We attach a sample program for ioctl.

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 5/6] switch function of netpoll

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 4/6] using symlink for the net_device

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We use symbolic link for net_device. The link in sysfs represents the corresponding network etherdevice. -+- /sys/class/misc/ |-+- netconsole/ |-+- port1/ | |--- id [r--r--r--] id | |--- net: [rw-r--r--] net_dev: eth

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 3/6] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes for supporting multiple logging agents. 1. extend netconsole to multiple netpolls To send kernel messages to multiple logging agents, extend netcosnole to be able to use multiple netpolls. Each netpoll

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 1/6] marking __init

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following cleanups. - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and init_netconsole()). Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Takay

[RFC][PATCH -mm take4 0/6] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2007-04-18 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take3 6/6][resend] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-03-22 Thread Keiichi KII
Sorry, I sent the incomplete sample program. So, I send the complete one again. Any comments welcom. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define NETCONSOLE_DEV_NAME "/dev/netconsole" #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0])

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take3 2/6][resend] support multiple logging

2007-03-22 Thread Keiichi KII
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On 3/20/07, Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch contains the following changes for supporting multiple logging agents. +#define CONFIG_SEPARATOR ";" CONFIG_* is reserved for configuration options. Since you use it in only one place ju

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 6/6][resend] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We add ioctls for adding/removing target. If we use NETCONSOLE_ADD_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically add netconsole target. If we use NETCONSOLE_REMOVE_TARGET ioctl, we can dynamically remoe netconsole target. We attach a sample program for ioctl.

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 5/6][resend] switch function of netpoll

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 3/6][resend] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 4/6][resend] using symlink for the net_device

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We use symbolic link for net_device. The link in sysfs represents the corresponding network etherdevice. -+- /sys/class/misc/ |-+- netconsole/ |-+- port1/ | |--- id [r--r--r--] id | |--- net: [rw-r--r--] net_dev: eth

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 2/6][resend] support multiple logging

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes for supporting multiple logging agents. 1. extend netconsole to multiple netpolls To send kernel messages to multiple logging agents, extend netcosnole to be able to use multiple netpolls. Each netpoll

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 1/6][resend] marking __init

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following cleanups. - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and init_netconsole()). Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Takayoshi Kochi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: li

[RFC][PATCH -mm take3 0/6][resend] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2007-03-20 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take2 3/5] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-01-10 Thread Keiichi KII
ld crash... > > > Maybe having a state variable/sysfs file so you could setup the port and > turn it on/off with write. You are right. When I tested above program, my machine crashed. I'm going to rethink the interface for netconsole. Thanks for your comments. -- Keiich

[RFC][PATCH -mm take2 5/5] add "add" element in /sys/class/misc/netconsole

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm take2 4/5] switch function of netpoll

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm take2 3/5] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH -mm take2 1/5] marking __init

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following cleanups. - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and init_netconsole()). Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Takayoshi Kochi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- li

[PATCH -mm take2 0/5] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/5] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
l structure. So, You can't use NIPQUAD to follow the current implementation of netpoll. -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2006-12-25 Thread Keiichi KII
plication would rather find target MAC address and change it through the sysfs. -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[RFC][PATCH -mm 5/5] add "add" element in /sys/class/misc/netconsole

2006-12-22 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. To add port dynamically, create "add" element in /sys/class/misc/netconsole. ex) echo "@/eth0,@192.168.0.1/" > /sys/class/misc/netconsole/add then the port is added with the set

[RFC][PATCH -mm 4/5] switch function of netpoll

2006-12-22 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH -mm 3/5] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2006-12-22 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2006-12-22 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 take2 0/5] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2006-12-21 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The netconsole is a very useful module for collecting kernel message under certain circumstances(e.g. disk logging fails, serial port is unavailable). But current netconsole is not flexible. For example, if you want to change ip address for logging age

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 take2 5/5] add "add" element in /sys/class/misc/netconsole

2006-12-21 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. To add port dynamically, create "add" element in /sys/class/misc/netconsole. ex) echo "@/eth0,@192.168.0.1/" > /sys/class/misc/netconsole/add then the port is added with the set

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 take2 4/5] switch function of netpoll

2006-12-21 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains switch function of netpoll. If "enabled" attribute of certain port is '1', this port is used and the configurations of this port are uable to change. If "enabled" attribute of certain port

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 take2 3/5] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2006-12-21 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following changes. create a sysfs entry for netconsole in /sys/class/misc. This entry has elements related to netconsole as follows. You can change configuration of netconsole(writable attributes such as IP address, port number

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 take2 1/5] marking __init and remove drop initialization

2006-12-21 Thread Keiichi KII
From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the following cleanups. - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and init_netconsole()). - remove "drop" initialization in the netpoll structure. Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --