From patchwork Tue Jun 26 14:59:40 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: stephen hemminger X-Patchwork-Id: 167417 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C058B6FB9 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:59:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757853Ab2FZO7u (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:59:50 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:53573 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757276Ab2FZO7t (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:59:49 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vyatta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A7E142005B; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tahiti.vyatta.com Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.vyatta.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mSpYGPc5iNXE; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net (static-50-53-80-93.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.53.80.93]) by mail.vyatta.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB5251420025; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:40 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Thomas Graf Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Assign rtnl_link_ops to bridge devices created via ioctl() Message-ID: <20120626075940.099521a7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: <692d04316b78401b0256598155caae190d3f27c9.1340700973.git.tgraf@suug.ch> References: <692d04316b78401b0256598155caae190d3f27c9.1340700973.git.tgraf@suug.ch> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:56:15 +0200 Thomas Graf wrote: > +void br_assign_rtnl_link_ops(struct net_device *dev) > +{ > + dev->rtnl_link_ops = &br_link_ops; > +} I am fine with the concept, but maybe it would just be simpler to make br_link_ops public? --- 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 --- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c 2012-06-22 08:27:50.837126940 -0700 +++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c 2012-06-26 07:56:33.510237340 -0700 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int br_validate(struct nlattr *tb return 0; } -static struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = { +struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = { .kind = "bridge", .priv_size = sizeof(struct net_bridge), .setup = br_dev_setup, --- a/net/bridge/br_private.h 2012-06-22 08:27:50.837126940 -0700 +++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h 2012-06-26 07:57:25.873711454 -0700 @@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ extern int (*br_fdb_test_addr_hook)(stru #endif /* br_netlink.c */ +extern struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops; extern int br_netlink_init(void); extern void br_netlink_fini(void); extern void br_ifinfo_notify(int event, struct net_bridge_port *port); --- a/net/bridge/br_if.c 2012-06-26 07:59:01.996746090 -0700 +++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c 2012-06-26 07:58:55.904807272 -0700 @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ int br_add_bridge(struct net *net, const return -ENOMEM; dev_net_set(dev, net); + br->rtnl_link_ops = &br_link_ops; res = register_netdev(dev); if (res)