[RTNETLINK]: Introduce generic rtnl_create_link().

This routine gets the parsed rtnl attributes and creates a new
link with generic info (IFLA_LINKINFO policy). Its intention
is to help the drivers, that need to create several links at
once (like VETH).

This is nothing but a copy-paste-ed part of rtnl_newlink() function
that is responsible for creation of new device.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Pavel Emelianov
2007-08-08 22:16:38 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent bea3348eef
commit e71992889e
2 changed files with 55 additions and 28 deletions

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@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ extern void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern int rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(char *ifname,
const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[]);
extern const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1];
#define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind)
#endif