From 937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:05:05 -0800 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 4647604c7ca..ec54785d34f 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ struct net_device NETREG_UNREGISTERING, /* called unregister_netdevice */ NETREG_UNREGISTERED, /* completed unregister todo */ NETREG_RELEASED, /* called free_netdev */ + NETREG_DUMMY, /* dummy device for NAPI poll */ } reg_state; /* Called from unregister, can be used to call free_netdev */ @@ -1077,6 +1078,8 @@ extern void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev); extern void synchronize_net(void); extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); +extern int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev); + extern int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev); extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex); extern struct net_device *__dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex); -- cgit v1.2.3