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| author | stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2011-04-04 14:03:32 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-04-04 17:22:28 -0700 |
| commit | bb900b27a2f49b37bc38c08e656ea13048fee13b (patch) | |
| tree | dbea65f697ee131de15a7b6d94466744ad346594 /net/bridge/br.c | |
| parent | 36fd2b63e3b4336744cf3f6a6c9543ecbec334a7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-bb900b27a2f49b37bc38c08e656ea13048fee13b.tar.gz lwn-bb900b27a2f49b37bc38c08e656ea13048fee13b.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/bridge/br.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
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"); |