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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800 |
| commit | 937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 154e0c5ce11b5afe25816d667c76b19ac679d530 /include | |
| parent | 2950e952920811be465ec95c6b56f03dc66a05c0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2.tar.gz lwn-937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2.zip | |
net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.
It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()
Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 4647604c7ca9..ec54785d34f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ struct net_device NETREG_UNREGISTERING, /* called unregister_netdevice */ NETREG_UNREGISTERED, /* completed unregister todo */ NETREG_RELEASED, /* called free_netdev */ + NETREG_DUMMY, /* dummy device for NAPI poll */ } reg_state; /* Called from unregister, can be used to call free_netdev */ @@ -1077,6 +1078,8 @@ extern void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev); extern void synchronize_net(void); extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); +extern int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev); + extern int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev); extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex); extern struct net_device *__dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex); |