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| author |   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> | 2015-04-02 17:07:00 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -0400 |
| commit | a54acb3a6f853e8394c4cb7b6a4d93c88f13eefd (patch) | |
| tree | b1e887d2bc8c205d4fe3b331e40fddba5de6ee01 /include | |
| parent | crypto: algif - explicitly mark end of data (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-a54acb3a6f853e8394c4cb7b6a4d93c88f13eefd.tar.xz linux-dev-a54acb3a6f853e8394c4cb7b6a4d93c88f13eefd.zip | |
dev: introduce dev_get_iflink()
The goal of this patch is to prepare the removal of the iflink field. It
introduces a new ndo function, which will be implemented by virtual interfaces.
There is no functional change into this patch. All readers of iflink field
now call dev_get_iflink().
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 967bb4c8caf1..788eb7a622ad 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1030,6 +1030,8 @@ typedef u16 (*select_queue_fallback_t)(struct net_device *dev, * int queue_index, u32 maxrate); * Called when a user wants to set a max-rate limitation of specific * TX queue. + * int (*ndo_get_iflink)(const struct net_device *dev); + * Called to get the iflink value of this device. */ struct net_device_ops { int (*ndo_init)(struct net_device *dev); @@ -1191,6 +1193,7 @@ struct net_device_ops { int (*ndo_set_tx_maxrate)(struct net_device *dev, int queue_index, u32 maxrate); + int (*ndo_get_iflink)(const struct net_device *dev); }; /** @@ -2149,6 +2152,7 @@ void __dev_remove_pack(struct packet_type *pt); void dev_add_offload(struct packet_offload *po); void dev_remove_offload(struct packet_offload *po); +int dev_get_iflink(const struct net_device *dev); struct net_device *__dev_get_by_flags(struct net *net, unsigned short flags, unsigned short mask); struct net_device *dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name); |