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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-01-14 21:05:05 -0800
commit937f1ba56b4be37d9e2ad77412f95048662058d2 (patch)
tree154e0c5ce11b5afe25816d667c76b19ac679d530 /net
parent2950e952920811be465ec95c6b56f03dc66a05c0 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c39
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 60377b6c0a80..8d675975d85b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4431,6 +4431,45 @@ err_uninit:
}
/**
+ * init_dummy_netdev - init a dummy network device for NAPI
+ * @dev: device to init
+ *
+ * This takes a network device structure 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.
+ */
+int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ /* Clear everything. Note we don't initialize spinlocks
+ * are they aren't supposed to be taken by any of the
+ * NAPI code and this dummy netdev is supposed to be
+ * only ever used for NAPI polls
+ */
+ memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct net_device));
+
+ /* make sure we BUG if trying to hit standard
+ * register/unregister code path
+ */
+ dev->reg_state = NETREG_DUMMY;
+
+ /* initialize the ref count */
+ atomic_set(&dev->refcnt, 1);
+
+ /* NAPI wants this */
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->napi_list);
+
+ /* a dummy interface is started by default */
+ set_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state);
+ set_bit(__LINK_STATE_START, &dev->state);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_dummy_netdev);
+
+
+/**
* register_netdev - register a network device
* @dev: device to register
*