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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-04-04 14:03:32 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-04 17:22:28 -0700
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bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink
Add netlink device ops to allow creating bridge device via netlink. This works in a manner similar to vlan, macvlan and bonding. Example: # ip link add link dev br0 type bridge # ip link del dev br0 The change required rearranging initializtion code to deal with being called by create link. Most of the initialization happens in br_dev_setup, but allocation of stats is done in ndo_init callback to deal with allocation failure. Sysfs setup has to wait until after the network device kobject is registered. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
index 84bbb82599b2..f20c4fd915a8 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br.c
@@ -104,3 +104,4 @@ module_init(br_init)
module_exit(br_deinit)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(BR_VERSION);
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("bridge");