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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2012-05-09 18:32:01 -0600 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2012-05-09 18:32:01 -0600 |
| commit | 3aa450c063e29b4f4b622480e1779e5e256d8f8f (patch) | |
| tree | d18942ff8bf862f2973f4e7adbf99c4f3e22a563 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | d57a4282d04810417c4ed2a49cbbeda8b3569b18 (diff) | |
| parent | d48b97b403d23f6df0b990cee652bdf9a52337a3 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.4-rc6' into spi/next
Linux 3.4-rc6
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 20 |
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; } |