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dev: support deferring device flag change notifications

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Split dev_change_flags() into two functions: __dev_change_flags() to
perform the actual changes and __dev_notify_flags() to invoke netdevice
notifiers. This will be used by rtnl_link to defer netlink notifications
until the device has been fully configured.

This changes ordering of some operations, in particular:

- netlink notifications are sent after all changes have been performed.
  As a side effect this surpresses one unnecessary netlink message when
  the IFF_UP and other flags are changed simultaneously.

- The NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_DOWN and NETDEV_CHANGE notifiers are invoked
  after all changes have been performed. Their relative is unchanged.

- net_dmaengine_put() is invoked before the NETDEV_DOWN notifier instead
  of afterwards. This should not make any difference since both RX and TX
  are already shut down at this point.

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 06:34:53 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent a2835763e1
commit bd38081160
3 changed files with 109 additions and 64 deletions
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@ -1427,8 +1427,6 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_UP:
case NETDEV_DOWN:
rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING);
break;
case NETDEV_PRE_UP:
case NETDEV_POST_INIT:
case NETDEV_REGISTER: