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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-13 11:30:55 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-13 11:36:48 -0400
commite65ac4d54546b7d7514a9e8be1484c758f2b7ba3 (patch)
tree7b4bffabbe75739310e200360789e25732540da0 /net/core
parent816a7854d56f19aeba3c83e1ed8c2c0ef275365a (diff)
parentd62f8dbb5b7771910f7c4657345df8ac93acb832 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull in the 'net' tree to get CAIF bug fixes upon which the following set of CAIF feature patches depend. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c25d453b2803..9bb8f87c4cda 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1409,14 +1409,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifier);
* register_netdevice_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the
* kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code
* is returned on a failure.
+ *
+ * After unregistering unregister and down device events are synthesized
+ * for all devices on the device list to the removed notifier to remove
+ * the need for special case cleanup code.
*/
int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ struct net *net;
int err;
rtnl_lock();
err = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&netdev_chain, nb);
+ if (err)
+ goto unlock;
+
+ for_each_net(net) {
+ for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
+ if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev);
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_DOWN, dev);
+ }
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev);
+ }
+ }
+unlock:
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}