From: Paul Gortmaker <redacted>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:36:58 -0400

I'm glad to say this represents the last batch of salvaged commits
from what was the sourceforge queue of stuff misplaced on the older
v2.6.19/v1.7.x baseline.  Going forward, folks got a clear message
that they _must_ put forward any new/prospective changes on netdev
for peer review and ask for continuous integration and not stockpile
crap in a corner (cause I'm sure as hell not going to volunteer to
be Winston Wolf for it again).

Anyway, knowing that there isn't any more "old" patches from that to
worry about, I took the opportunity to close out by clobbering a bunch
of needless extra blank lines following comments, since there isn't
any pending patch context fallout to worry about.  This one cosmetic
change alone makes up most of the diffstat, giving:

 32 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 530 deletions(-)

out of the total:

 34 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 567 deletions(-)

You must feel like you've just moved a mountain, Mr. Wolf.

That aside, the meat of what is here is:

  -reduce some of the build up/tear down on configuration paths

  -more strict checks on published names and payload types

  -factor out some duplicated code;  +some redundant code deletion.

Testing has been the usual 64 <---> 32bit using tipc-utils ptts.

I still want to look at your suggestion of reusing existing code
for the logging stuff someday, now that the queue is closed out,
but that is completely separate from the backlog, and it probably
isn't going to be happening in the 3.5 timeframe.

Pulled, thanks.