| Message ID | 1254075999.6583.4.camel@johannes.local |
|---|---|
| State | Deferred, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
| Headers | show |
Hi Johannes, > For various purposes including a wireless extensions > bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation at > a point before netdev_register_kobject(). It seems > more generic, however, to have it even earlier. This > will also ease doing the dev type assignment that > Marcel was working on generically. you are beating me to it. I can only second that this is a good idea for the dev type assignment. Once Dave acks this I can sent a rebased patch for the dev type stuff for WiFi. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/notifier.h 2009-09-27 15:09:10.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/include/linux/notifier.h 2009-09-27 15:10:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int #define NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE 0x000B #define NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER 0x000C #define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D +#define NETDEV_PRE_INIT 0x000E #define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ #define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN --- wireless-testing.orig/net/core/dev.c 2009-09-27 15:09:56.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/core/dev.c 2009-09-27 15:11:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -4734,6 +4734,11 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device dev->iflink = -1; + ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_PRE_INIT, dev); + ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); + if (ret) + goto out; + /* Init, if this function is available */ if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_init) { ret = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_init(dev);
For various purposes including a wireless extensions bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation at a point before netdev_register_kobject(). It seems more generic, however, to have it even earlier. This will also ease doing the dev type assignment that Marcel was working on generically. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> --- include/linux/notifier.h | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html