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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-10-02 05:15:27 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-10-05 00:43:34 -0700 |
| commit | 7ffbe3fdace0bdfcdab8dc6c77506feda0871f79 (patch) | |
| tree | 97c0905b309bded1f37f94070315ce16ad65f487 | |
| parent | 225794f8c33fd32721ae1cd3576db99810351d7b (diff) | |
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net: introduce NETDEV_POST_INIT notifier
For various purposes including a wireless extensions
bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation before
before netdev_register_kobject(). This will also ease
doing the dev type assignment that Marcel was working
on for cfg80211 drivers w/o touching them all.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/notifier.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h index 44428d247dbe..29714b8441b1 100644 --- a/include/linux/notifier.h +++ b/include/linux/notifier.h @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret) #define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D #define NETDEV_BONDING_OLDTYPE 0x000E #define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F +#define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0x0010 #define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ #define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index b8f74cfb1bfd..a74c8fd69556 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4836,6 +4836,12 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO; netdev_initialize_kobject(dev); + + ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev); + ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); + if (ret) + goto err_uninit; + ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev); if (ret) goto err_uninit; |