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net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it

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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>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-14 21:05:05 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2950e95292
commit 937f1ba56b
4 changed files with 47 additions and 1 deletions
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net/core/dev.c
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@@ -4430,6 +4430,45 @@ err_uninit:
goto out;
}
/**
* init_dummy_netdev - init a dummy network device for NAPI
* @dev: device to init
*
* This takes a network device structure 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.
*/
int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
{
/* Clear everything. Note we don't initialize spinlocks
* are they aren't supposed to be taken by any of the
* NAPI code and this dummy netdev is supposed to be
* only ever used for NAPI polls
*/
memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct net_device));
/* make sure we BUG if trying to hit standard
* register/unregister code path
*/
dev->reg_state = NETREG_DUMMY;
/* initialize the ref count */
atomic_set(&dev->refcnt, 1);
/* NAPI wants this */
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->napi_list);
/* a dummy interface is started by default */
set_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state);
set_bit(__LINK_STATE_START, &dev->state);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_dummy_netdev);
/**
* register_netdev - register a network device
* @dev: device to register