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This series provides updates to mlx5 driver:
1) Use vport metadata matching only when mandatory
2) Introduce root flow table and ethtool steering for uplink representors
3) Expose port speed via FW when link modes are not available
3) Misc cleanups
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Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2020-03-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux
Saeed Mahameed says:
====================
mlx5-updates-2020-03-09
This series provides updates to mlx5 driver:
1) Use vport metadata matching only when mandatory
2) Introduce root flow table and ethtool steering for uplink representors
3) Expose port speed via FW when link modes are not available
3) Misc cleanups
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Huazhong Tan says:
====================
net: hns3: misc updates for -net-next
This series includes some misc updates for the HNS3 ethernet driver.
[patch 1] fixes some mixed type operation warning.
[patch 2] renames a macro to make it more readable.
[patch 3 & 4] removes some unnecessary code.
[patch 5] adds check before assert VF reset to prevent some unsuitable
error log.
[patch 6 - 9] some modifications related to printing.
Change log:
V1->V2: fixes a wrong print format in [patch 1] suggested by Jian Shen.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since kernel already has logs after kzalloc fails,
it's unnecessary to print duplicate logs. So this
patch deletes these logs.
Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch modifies some printing relating to reset issue.
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a local variable to save the command code in
some dump cases which need to modify the command code, then
the failing command code can be print out for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When received an unknown vector 0 interrupt, there is not a
helpful information for user to realize that now. So this patch
prints out the value of the status register for this case, and
uses dev_info() instead of dev_dbg() in hclge_check_event_cause().
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When setting VF's MAC from PF, if the VF driver not loaded, the
firmware will return error to PF.
So PF should check whether VF is alive before sending message to
VF when setting VF's MAC.
Signed-off-by: Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In hclge_add_mc_addr_common() and hclge_rm_mc_addr_common(),
variable req had been set as "0" by memset(), so it's unnecessary
to set .entry_type field as "0" with hnae3_set_bit() again.
Signed-off-by: Guojia Liao <liaoguojia@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In hclge_handle_hw_ras_error(), it is unnecessary to check
HCLGE_STATE_RST_HANDLING flag, because the reset priority
has been ensured by the process itself.
Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The name of macro HCLGE_MAX_NCL_CONFIG_LENGTH is inaccurate,
this patch renames it to HCLGE_NCL_CONFIG_LENGTH_IN_EACH_CMD.
Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch cleans up some incorrect type in assignment reported by sparse
and compiler.
The warning as below:
- warning : restricted __le16 degrades to integer
- warning : cast from restricted __le32
- warning : cast from restricted __be32
- warning : cast from restricted __be16
and "mixed operation".
Signed-off-by: Guojia Liao <liaoguojia@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Shannon Nelson says:
====================
ionic updates
This is a set of small updates for the Pensando ionic driver, some
from internal work, some a result of mailing list discussions.
v4 - don't register mgmt device netdev
v3 - changed __attribute__(packed)) to __packed
v2 - removed print from ionic_init_module()
====================
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the default kernel version in ethtool drv_info output
and drop the module version.
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for the management port device id. This is to
capture the device and set it up for devlink use, but not set
it up for network operations. We still use a netdev object
in order to use the napi infrasucture for processing adminq
and notifyq messages, we just don't register the netdev.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Print the PCI bus lane information so people can keep an
eye out for poor configurations that might not support
the advertised speed.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We can disable rxhashing by setting rss_types to 0. The user
can toggle this with "ethtool -K <ethX> rxhash off|on",
which calls into the .ndo_set_features callback with the
NETIF_F_RXHASH feature bit set or cleared. This patch adds
a check for that bit and updates the FW if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the unused flags field and and fix the bitflag names
to include the _F_ flag hint.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Spreading the interrupts across the CPU cores is good for load
balancing, but not necessarily as good when using a CPU/core
that is not part of the NUMA local CPU. If it can be localized,
the kernel's cpumask_local_spread() service will pick a core
that is on the node close to the PCI device.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace the misguided "#pragma packed" with tags on each
struct/union definition that actually needs it. This is safer
and more efficient on the various compilers and architectures.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the basic ionic interface works but the lif creation fails,
don't fail the probe. This will allow us to use the driver to
help inspect the hw/fw/pci interface for debugging purposes.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Florian Westphal says:
====================
mptcp: don't auto-adjust rcvbuf size if locked
The mptcp receive buffer is auto-sized based on the subflow receive
buffer. Don't do this if userspace specfied a value via SO_RCVBUF
setsockopt.
Also update selftest program to provide a new option to set a fixed
size.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The mptcp rcvbuf size is adjusted according to the subflow rcvbuf size.
This should not be done if userspace did set a fixed value.
Fixes: 600911ff5f72bae ("mptcp: add rmem queue accounting")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
allows to run the tests with fixed receive buffer by passing
"-R <value>" to mptcp_connect.sh.
While at it, add a default 10 second poll timeout so the "-t"
becomes optional -- this makes mptcp_connect simpler to use
during manual testing.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for configuring port mirroring through the cls_matchall
classifier. We do a full ingress and/or egress capture towards a
capture port.
MT7530 supports one monitor port and multiple mirrored ports.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- bump version strings, by Simon Wunderlich
- Avoid RCU list-traversal in spinlock, by Sven Eckelmann
- Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member,
by Gustavo A. R. Silva
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Merge tag 'batadv-next-for-davem-20200306' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge
Simon Wunderlich says:
====================
This cleanup patchset includes the following patches:
- bump version strings, by Simon Wunderlich
- Avoid RCU list-traversal in spinlock, by Sven Eckelmann
- Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member,
by Gustavo A. R. Silva
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Heiner Kallweit says:
====================
r8169: series with improvements to rtl_tx
This series includes few improvements to rtl_tx().
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Until ae84bc187337 ("r8169: don't use bit LastFrag in tx descriptor
after send") we used to access another bit in the descriptor, therefore
it seems the barrier was needed. Since this commit DescOwn is the
only bit we're interested in, so the barrier isn't needed any longer.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Simplify the parameters taken by rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb, this makes
usage of this function easier to read and understand.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So far tx_skb->skb is the only member of the two structs that is not
reset. Make understanding the code easier by resetting both structs
completely in rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Slightly improve the code by converting this while to a for loop.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Julian Wiedmann says:
====================
s390/qeth: updates 2020-03-06
please apply the following patch series for qeth to netdev's net-next
tree.
Just a small update to take care of a regression wrt to IRQ handling in
net-next, reported by Qian Cai. The fix needs some qdio layer changes,
so you will find Vasily's Acked-by in that patch.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After recent cleanups this is just a complicated wrapper around an u32*.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Once the call to qdio_establish() has completed, qdio is free to deliver
data IRQs to the device driver's IRQ poll handler.
For qeth (the only qdio driver that currently uses IRQ polling) this is
problematic, since the IRQs can arrive before its NAPI instance is
even registered. Calling napi_schedule() from qeth_qdio_start_poll()
then crashes in various nasty ways.
Until recently qeth checked for IFF_UP to drop such early interrupts,
but that's fragile as well since it doesn't enforce any ordering.
Fix this properly by bringing up the qdio device in IRQS_DISABLED mode,
and have the driver explicitly opt-in to receive data IRQs.
qeth does so from qeth_open(), which kick-starts a NAPI poll and then
calls qdio_start_irq() from qeth_poll().
Also add a matching qdio_stop_irq() in qeth_stop() to switch the qdio
dataplane back into a disabled state.
Fixes: 3d35dbe6224e ("s390/qeth: don't check for IFF_UP when scheduling napi")
CC: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 105e808c1da2 ("pie: remove pie_vars->accu_prob_overflows")
changes the scale of probability values in PIE from (2^64 - 1) to
(2^56 - 1). This affects the precision of tc_pie_xstats->prob in
user space.
This patch ensures user space is unaffected.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add TCP_NLA_BYTES_NOTSENT to SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS that reports
bytes in the write queue but not sent. This is the same metric as
what is exported with tcp_info.tcpi_notsent_bytes.
Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reuse infrastructure that already exists for pf in legacy mode to show/set
Rx network flow classification rules for uplink representors.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
During transition to uplink representors the code responsible for
initializing ethtool steering functionality wasn't added to representor
init rx routine. This causes NULL pointer dereference during configuration
of network flow classification rule with ethtool (only possible to
reproduce with next commit in this series which registers necessary ethtool
callbacks).
Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Reuse infrastructure that already exists for pf in legacy mode to show/set
Rx flow hash indirection table and RSS hash key for uplink representors.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Uplink representor traffic will be redirected to an empty root ft rather
than directly to a direct tir or ttc table, this root ft will be empty and
will be used as a link for auto-chaining with ttc table or ethtool tables
in downstream patches.
On load, fs core will connect uplink rep root_ft with ttc table. In case
ethtool steering will be used, fs core will auto connect root_ft with
the ethtool bypass tables, which will be connected with the ttc table.
vport_rx_rule[uplink_rep]->root_ft->ethtool->ttc.
For non-uplink representors, for simplicity root_ft will always point at
ttc table, hence the replace vport_rx rule logic is removed.
vport_rx_rule[non_uplink_rep]->root_ft(ttc).
For now ethtool steering support can only be available on uplink rep.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
mlx5_eswitch_inline_mode_get() is used only in eswitch_offloads.c.
Hence, make it static and adjacent to its caller function.
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Bodong Wang <bodong@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Instead of giving ft tables one of the largest tables available - 4M,
give it a more reasonable size - 64k. Especially since it will
always be created as a miss hook in the following patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
The esw_vport_tbl_get() function returns error pointers on error.
Fixes: 96e326878fa5 ("net/mlx5e: Eswitch, Use per vport tables for mirroring")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
According to PRM, forward to flow table along with either packet
reformat or decap is supported only if reformat_and_fwd_to_table
capability is set for the flow table.
Add dependency on the capability and pack all the conditions for "goto
chain" in a single function.
Fix language in error message in case of not supporting forward to a
lower numbered flow table.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Multi-port RoCE mode requires tagging traffic that passes through the
vport.
This matching can cause performance degradation, therefore disable it
and use the legacy matching on vhca_id and source_port when possible.
Fixes: 92ab1eb392c6 ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Enable vport metadata matching if firmware supports it")
Signed-off-by: Majd Dibbiny <majd@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Use reverse chirstmas tree inside mlx5e_ethtool_get_link_ksettings.
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
When port speed can't be reported based on ext_eth_proto_capability
or eth_proto_capability instead of reporting speed as unknown check
if the port's speed can be inferred based on the data_rate_oper field.
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
This series adds some HW bits and definitions for mlx5 driver, to be
used by downstream features in both rdma and netdev branches.
* 'mlx5-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux:
net/mlx5: HW bit for goto chain offload support
net/mlx5: Expose link speed directly
net/mlx5: Introduce TLS and IPSec objects enums
net/mlx5: Introduce egress acl forward-to-vport capability
net/mlx5: Expose raw packet pacing APIs
net/mlx5e: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
net/mlx5: fix spelling mistake "reserverd" -> "reserved"
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Commit a8d0f11ee50d ("MIPS: SGI-IP27: Enable ethernet phy on second
Origin 200 module") fixes the root cause of not detected PHYs.
Therefore the workaround can go away now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alex Elder says:
====================
net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver (UPDATED)
This series presents the driver for the Qualcomm IP Accelerator (IPA).
This is version 2 of this updated series. It includes the following
small changes since the previous version:
- Now based on net-next instead of v5.6-rc
- Config option now named CONFIG_QCOM_IPA
- Some minor cleanup in the GSI code
- Small change to replenish logic
- No longer depends on remoteproc bug fixes
What follows is the basically same explanation as was posted previously.
-Alex
I have posted earlier versions of this code previously, but it has
undergone quite a bit of development since the last time, so rather
than calling it "version 3" I'm just treating it as a new series
(indicating it's been updated in this message). The fast/data path
is the same as before. But the driver now (nearly) supports a
second platform, its transaction handling has been generalized
and improved, and modem activities are now handled in a more
unified way.
This series is available (based on net-next in branch "ipa_updated-v2"
in this git repository:
https://git.linaro.org/people/alex.elder/linux.git
The branch depends on other one other small patch that I sent out
for review earlier.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200306042302.17602-1-elder@linaro.org/
I want to address some of the discussion that arose last time.
First, there was the WWAN discussion. Here's the history:
- This was last posted nine months ago.
- Reviewers at that time favored developing a new WWAN subsystem that
would be used for managing devices like this. And the suggestion
was to not accept this driver until that could be developed.
- Along the way, Apple acquired much of Intel's modem business.
And as a result, the generic framework became less pressing.
- I did participate in the WWAN subsystem design however, and
although it went dormant for a while it's been resurrected:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200225100053.16385-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net/
- Unfortunately the proposed WWAN design was not an easy fit
with Qualcomm's integrated modem interfaces. Given that
rmnet is a supported link type for in the upstream "iproute2"
package (more on this below), I have opted not to integrate
with any WWAN subsystem.
So in summary, this driver does not integrate with a generic WWAN
framework. And I'd like it to be accepted upstream despite that.
Next, Arnd Bergmann had some concerns about flow control. (Note:
some of my discussions with Arnd about this were offline.) The
overall architecture here also involves the "rmnet" driver:
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet
The rmnet driver presents a network device for use. It connects
with another network device presented, by the IPA driver. The
rmnet driver wraps (and unwraps) packets transferred to (and from)
the IPA driver with QMAP headers.
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| rmnet_data0 | <-- "real" netdev
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|| }- QMAP spoken here
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| rmnet_ipa0 | <-- also netdev, transporting QMAP packets
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||
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( IPA hardware )
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Arnd's concern was that the rmnet_data0 network device does not
have the benefit of information about the state of the underlying
IPA hardware in order to be effective in controlling TX flow.
The feared result is over-buffering of TX packets (bufferbloat).
I began working on some simple experiments to see whether (or how
much) his concern was warranted. But it turned out that completing
these experiments was much more work than had been hoped.
The rmnet driver is present in the upstream kernel. There is also
support for the rmnet link type in the upstream "ip" user space
command in the "iproute2" package. Changing the layering of rmnet
over IPA likely involves deprecating the rmnet driver and its
support in "iproute2". I would really rather not go down that
path.
There is precedent for this sort of layering of network devices
(L2TP, VLAN). And any architecture like this would suffer the
issues Arnd mentioned; the problem is not limited to rmnet and IPA.
I do think this is a problem worth solving, but the prudent thing
to do might be to try to solve it more generally.
So to summarize on this issue, this driver does not attempt to
change the way the rmnet and IPA drivers work together. And even
though I think Arnd's concerns warrant more investigation, I'd like
this driver to to be accepted upstream without any change to this
architecture.
Finally, a more technical description for the series, and some
acknowledgements to some people who contributed to it.
The IPA is a component present in some Qualcomm SoCs that allows
network functions such as aggregation, filtering, routing, and NAT
to be performed without active involvement of the main application
processor (AP).
In this initial patch series these advanced features are not
implemented. The IPA driver simply provides a network interface
that makes the modem's LTE network available in Linux. This initial
series supports only the Qualcomm SDM845 SoC. The Qualcomm SC7180
SoC is partially supported, and support for other platforms will
follow.
This code is derived from a driver developed by Qualcomm. A version
of the original source can be seen here:
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/tree
in the "drivers/platform/msm/ipa" directory. Many were involved in
developing this, but the following individuals deserve explicit
acknowledgement for their substantial contributions:
Abhishek Choubey
Ady Abraham
Chaitanya Pratapa
David Arinzon
Ghanim Fodi
Gidon Studinski
Ravi Gummadidala
Shihuan Liu
Skylar Chang
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add IPA-related nodes and definitions to "sdm845.dtsi".
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
