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authorPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>2007-08-08 22:16:38 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:47:45 -0700
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treed078d6a4d98348518229ad12ad3ecc847680c884 /include/net/rtnetlink.h
parent[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. (diff)
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[RTNETLINK]: Introduce generic rtnl_create_link().
This routine gets the parsed rtnl attributes and creates a new link with generic info (IFLA_LINKINFO policy). Its intention is to help the drivers, that need to create several links at once (like VETH). This is nothing but a copy-paste-ed part of rtnl_newlink() function that is responsible for creation of new device. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/rtnetlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/rtnetlink.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 3861c05cdf0f..8218288ab7ee 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ extern void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern int rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
+extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(char *ifname,
+ const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[]);
+extern const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1];
+
#define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind)
#endif