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net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier

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NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes
it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a
new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this.
The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be
set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2009-05-30 01:39:53 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent bdf6d32f93
commit 3b8bcfd5d3
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name)
int dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
{
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
int ret = 0;
int ret;
ASSERT_RTNL();
@ -1065,6 +1065,11 @@ int dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
if (!netif_device_present(dev))
return -ENODEV;
ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_PRE_UP, dev);
ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
if (ret)
return ret;
/*
* Call device private open method
*/