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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800 |
commit | 937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2 (patch) | |
tree | 154e0c5ce11b5afe25816d667c76b19ac679d530 /ipc | |
parent | 2950e952920811be465ec95c6b56f03dc66a05c0 (diff) |
net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.
It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()
Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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