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rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually

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In order to support specifying device flags during device creation,
we must be able to roll back device registration in case setting the
flags fails without sending any notifications related to the device
to userspace.

This patch changes rollback_registered_many() and register_netdevice()
to manually send netlink notifications for devices not handled by
rtnl_link and allows to defer notifications for devices handled by
rtnl_link until setup is complete.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy
2010-02-26 06:34:51 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 10de05afe0
commit a2835763e1
3 changed files with 14 additions and 5 deletions
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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@ -924,7 +924,12 @@ struct net_device {
NETREG_UNREGISTERED, /* completed unregister todo */
NETREG_RELEASED, /* called free_netdev */
NETREG_DUMMY, /* dummy device for NAPI poll */
} reg_state;
} reg_state:16;
enum {
RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED,
RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZING,
} rtnl_link_state:16;
/* Called from unregister, can be used to call free_netdev */
void (*destructor)(struct net_device *dev);