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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2010-02-26 06:34:53 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-02-27 02:43:40 -0800
commitbd38081160bb3d036db98472e537b6a7dd4da51a (patch)
tree26af1cae5e2dda3269da6f812586e93954582d54 /include
parenta2835763e130c343ace5320c20d33c281e7097b7 (diff)
dev: support deferring device flag change notifications
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 1bfda90c2625..c79a88be7c33 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1587,7 +1587,9 @@ extern int dev_valid_name(const char *name);
extern int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *);
extern int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *);
extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *);
+extern int __dev_change_flags(struct net_device *, unsigned int flags);
extern int dev_change_flags(struct net_device *, unsigned);
+extern void __dev_notify_flags(struct net_device *, unsigned int old_flags);
extern int dev_change_name(struct net_device *, const char *);
extern int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *, const char *, size_t);
extern int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *,