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    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next · aee3bfa3
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull networking updates from Davic Miller:
    
     1) Support busy polling generically, for all NAPI drivers.  From Eric
        Dumazet.
    
     2) Add byte/packet counter support to nft_ct, from Floriani Westphal.
    
     3) Add RSS/XPS support to mvneta driver, from Gregory Clement.
    
     4) Implement IPV6_HDRINCL socket option for raw sockets, from Hannes
        Frederic Sowa.
    
     5) Add support for T6 adapter to cxgb4 driver, from Hariprasad Shenai.
    
     6) Add support for VLAN device bridging to mlxsw switch driver, from
        Ido Schimmel.
    
     7) Add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000, from Jakub Kicinski.
    
     8) Provide hwmon interface to mlxsw switch driver, from Jiri Pirko.
    
     9) Reorganize wireless drivers into per-vendor directories just like we
        do for ethernet drivers.  From Kalle Valo.
    
    10) Provide a way for administrators "destroy" connected sockets via the
        SOCK_DESTROY socket netlink diag operation.  From Lorenzo Colitti.
    
    11) Add support to add/remove multicast routes via netlink, from Nikolay
        Aleksandrov.
    
    12) Make TCP keepalive settings per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.
    
    13) Add forwarding and packet duplication facilities to nf_tables, from
        Pablo Neira Ayuso.
    
    14) Dead route support in MPLS, from Roopa Prabhu.
    
    15) TSO support for thunderx chips, from Sunil Goutham.
    
    16) Add driver for IBM's System i/p VNIC protocol, from Thomas Falcon.
    
    17) Rationalize, consolidate, and more completely document the checksum
        offloading facilities in the networking stack.  From Tom Herbert.
    
    18) Support aborting an ongoing scan in mac80211/cfg80211, from
        Vidyullatha Kanchanapally.
    
    19) Use per-bucket spinlock for bpf hash facility, from Tom Leiming.
    
    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1375 commits)
      net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings
      net: bpf: reject invalid shifts
      phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()
      dwc_eth_qos: Fix dma address for multi-fragment skbs
      phy: remove an unneeded condition
      mdio: remove an unneed condition
      mdio_bus: NULL dereference on allocation error
      net: Fix typo in netdev_intersect_features
      net: freescale: mac-fec: Fix build error from phy_device API change
      net: freescale: ucc_geth: Fix build error from phy_device API change
      bonding: Prevent IPv6 link local address on enslaved devices
      IB/mlx5: Add flow steering support
      net/mlx5_core: Export flow steering API
      net/mlx5_core: Make ipv4/ipv6 location more clear
      net/mlx5_core: Enable flow steering support for the IB driver
      net/mlx5_core: Initialize namespaces only when supported by device
      net/mlx5_core: Set priority attributes
      net/mlx5_core: Connect flow tables
      net/mlx5_core: Introduce modify flow table command
      net/mlx5_core: Managing root flow table
      ...
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