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: (60 commits)
  [NIU]: Bump driver version and release date.
  [NIU]: Fix BMAC alternate MAC address indexing.
  net: fix kernel-doc warnings in header files
  [IPV6]: Use BUG_ON instead of if + BUG in fib6_del_route.
  [IPV6]: dst_entry leak in ip4ip6_err. (resend)
  bluetooth: do not move child device other than rfcomm
  bluetooth: put hci dev after del conn
  [NET]: Elminate spurious print_mac() calls.
  [BLUETOOTH] hci_sysfs.c: Kill build warning.
  [NET]: Remove MAC_FMT
  net/8021q/vlan_dev.c: Use print_mac.
  [XFRM]: Fix ordering issue in xfrm_dst_hash_transfer().
  [BLUETOOTH] net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: Use time_* macros
  [IPV6]: Fix hardcoded removing of old module code
  [NETLABEL]: Move some initialization code into __init section.
  [NETLABEL]: Shrink the genl-ops registration code.
  [AX25] ax25_out: check skb for NULL in ax25_kick()
  [TCP]: Fix tcp_v4_send_synack() comment
  [IPV4]: fix alignment of IP-Config output
  Documentation: fix tcp.txt
  ...

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index ecb02afd52d..61ac8d06292 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ int rtnl_put_cacheinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst, u32 id,
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtnl_put_cacheinfo);
 
-static int set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char transition, bool send_notification)
+static void set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char transition)
 {
 	unsigned char operstate = dev->operstate;
 
@@ -527,12 +527,8 @@ static int set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char transition, bool
 		write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
 		dev->operstate = operstate;
 		write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
-
-		if (send_notification)
-			netdev_state_change(dev);
-		return 1;
-	} else
-		return 0;
+		netdev_state_change(dev);
+	}
 }
 
 static void copy_rtnl_link_stats(struct rtnl_link_stats *a,
@@ -826,7 +822,6 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
 	if (tb[IFLA_BROADCAST]) {
 		nla_memcpy(dev->broadcast, tb[IFLA_BROADCAST], dev->addr_len);
 		send_addr_notify = 1;
-		modified = 1;
 	}
 
 	if (ifm->ifi_flags || ifm->ifi_change) {
@@ -839,23 +834,16 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
 		dev_change_flags(dev, flags);
 	}
 
-	if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]) {
-		if (dev->tx_queue_len != nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])) {
-			dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);
-			modified = 1;
-		}
-	}
+	if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
+		dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);
 
 	if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
-		modified |= set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]), false);
+		set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
 
 	if (tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]) {
-		if (dev->link_mode != nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE])) {
-			write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
-			dev->link_mode = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);
-			write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
-			modified = 1;
-		}
+		write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
+		dev->link_mode = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);
+		write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
 	}
 
 	err = 0;
@@ -869,10 +857,6 @@ errout:
 
 	if (send_addr_notify)
 		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);
-
-	if (modified)
-		netdev_state_change(dev);
-
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -990,7 +974,7 @@ struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *net, char *ifname,
 	if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
 		dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);
 	if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
-		set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]), true);
+		set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
 	if (tb[IFLA_LINKMODE])
 		dev->link_mode = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);