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 Revision 0.21:	Uses the new generic socket option code.

 Revision 0.22:	Gcc clean ups and drop out device registration. Use the
 		new multi-protocol edition of hard_header

 Revision 0.23: IPX /proc by Mark Evans. Adding a route will
 		will overwrite any existing route to the same network.

 Revision 0.24:	Supports new /proc with no 4K limit

 Revision 0.25:	Add ephemeral sockets, passive local network
 		identification, support for local net 0 and
 		multiple datalinks <Greg Page>

 Revision 0.26: Device drop kills IPX routes via it. (needed for module)

 Revision 0.27: Autobind <Mark Evans>

 Revision 0.28: Small fix for multiple local networks <Thomas Winder>

 Revision 0.29: Assorted major errors removed <Mark Evans>
 		Small correction to promisc mode error fix <Alan Cox>
 		Asynchronous I/O support. Changed to use notifiers
 		and the newer packet_type stuff. Assorted major
 		fixes <Alejandro Liu>

 Revision 0.30:	Moved to net/ipx/...	<Alan Cox>
 		Don't set address length on recvfrom that errors.
 		Incorrect verify_area.

 Revision 0.31:	New sk_buffs. This still needs a lot of 
 		testing. <Alan Cox>

 Revision 0.32: Using sock_alloc_send_skb, firewall hooks. <Alan Cox>
 		Supports sendmsg/recvmsg

 Revision 0.33:	Internal network support, routing changes, uses a
 		protocol private area for ipx data.

 Revision 0.34:	Module support. <Jim Freeman>

 Revision 0.35: Checksum support. <Neil Turton>, hooked in by <Alan Cox>
 		Handles WIN95 discovery packets <Volker Lendecke>

 Revision 0.36:	Internal bump up for 2.1

 Revision 0.37:	Began adding POSIXisms.

 Revision 0.38: Asynchronous socket stuff made current.

 Revision 0.39: SPX interfaces

 Revision 0.40: Tiny SIOCGSTAMP fix (chris@cybernet.co.nz)

 Revision 0.41: 802.2TR removed (p.norton@computer.org)
 		Fixed connecting to primary net,
 		Automatic binding on send & receive,
 		Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptogimp@geocities.com>

 Revision 042:  Multithreading - use spinlocks and refcounting to
 		protect some structures: ipx_interface sock list, list
 		of ipx interfaces, etc. 
 		Bugfixes - do refcounting on net_devices, check function
 		results, etc. Thanks to davem and freitag for
 		suggestions and guidance.
 		Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
 		November, 2000

 Revision 043:	Shared SKBs, don't mangle packets, some cleanups
 		Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
 		December, 2000

 Revision 044:	Call ipxitf_hold on NETDEV_UP - acme

 Revision 045:	fix PPROP routing bug - acme

 Revision 046:	Further fixes to PPROP, ipxitf_create_internal was
 		doing an unneeded MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, implement
 		sysctl for ipx_pprop_broacasting, fix the ipx sysctl
 		handling, making it dynamic, some cleanups, thanks to
 		Petr Vandrovec for review and good suggestions. (acme)

 Revision 047:	Cleanups, CodingStyle changes, move the ncp connection
 		hack out of line - acme

 Revision 048:	Use sk->protinfo to store the pointer to IPX private
 		area, remove af_ipx from sk->protinfo and move ipx_opt
 		to include/net/ipx.h, use IPX_SK like DecNET, etc - acme

 Revision 049:	SPX support dropped, see comment in ipx_create - acme

 Revision 050:	Use seq_file for proc stuff, moving it to ipx_proc.c - acme

Other fixes:
 
 Protect the module by a MOD_INC_USE_COUNT/MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT pair. Also, now
 usage count is managed this way:
 -Count one if the auto_interface mode is on
 -Count one per configured interface
 
 Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)