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net: move and rename netif_notify_peers()

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I believe net/core/dev.c is a better place for netif_notify_peers(),
because other net event notify functions also stay in this file.

And rename it to netdev_notify_peers().

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Amerigo Wang
2012-08-09 22:14:56 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 0f48917b93
commit ee89bab14e
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@ -1106,6 +1106,24 @@ void netdev_state_change(struct net_device *dev)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_state_change);
/**
* netdev_notify_peers - notify network peers about existence of @dev
* @dev: network device
*
* Generate traffic such that interested network peers are aware of
* @dev, such as by generating a gratuitous ARP. This may be used when
* a device wants to inform the rest of the network about some sort of
* reconfiguration such as a failover event or virtual machine
* migration.
*/
void netdev_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev)
{
rtnl_lock();
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
rtnl_unlock();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_notify_peers);
int netdev_bonding_change(struct net_device *dev, unsigned long event)
{
return call_netdevice_notifiers(event, dev);