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authorKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>2026-10-01 20:47:15 +0000
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-10-06 15:56:16 -0700
commit2e65372a2b64a1d6d1e27dff0579b3a609b2e405 (patch)
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parent3d51928a882b768581e79c0ef04b63e196d5ef4c (diff)
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net: Rename dev_isalive() to netif_is_alive().
The next patch needs to use dev_isalive() in xfrm. We should try to avoid using the dev_ prefix on APIs we export via include/linux/. Let's move it to include/linux/netdevice.h and rename to netif_is_alive(). Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Chris J Arges <carges@cloudflare.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261001204752.2572265-4-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index f61c97231309..8cae9b00211e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -5715,6 +5715,12 @@ static inline const char *netdev_name(const struct net_device *dev)
return dev->name;
}
+/* Caller holds RTNL, netdev->lock or RCU */
+static inline bool netif_is_alive(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ return READ_ONCE(dev->reg_state) <= NETREG_REGISTERED;
+}
+
static inline const char *netdev_reg_state(const struct net_device *dev)
{
u8 reg_state = READ_ONCE(dev->reg_state);