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| author |   Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2006-05-25 16:00:12 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-06-17 21:26:14 -0700 |
| commit | 11dc1f36a6701b502ecb695f308aae46ede8bac6 (patch) | |
| tree | e510f5514b3885489c8fe9a1661a7fa7b9e88f8d /net/bridge/br.c | |
| parent | [BRIDGE]: fix module startup error handling (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-11dc1f36a6701b502ecb695f308aae46ede8bac6.tar.xz linux-dev-11dc1f36a6701b502ecb695f308aae46ede8bac6.zip | |
[BRIDGE]: netlink interface for link management
Add basic netlink support to the Ethernet bridge. Including:
* dump interfaces in bridges
* monitor link status changes
* change state of bridge port
For some demo programs see:
http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/brnl.tar.gz
These are to allow building a daemon that does alternative
implementations of Spanning Tree Protocol.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/bridge/br.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c index 558d27204f60..654401ceb2db 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br.c +++ b/net/bridge/br.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int __init br_init(void) if (err) goto err_out2; + br_netlink_init(); brioctl_set(br_ioctl_deviceless_stub); br_handle_frame_hook = br_handle_frame; @@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ static void __exit br_deinit(void) { rcu_assign_pointer(br_stp_sap->rcv_func, NULL); + br_netlink_fini(); br_netfilter_fini(); unregister_netdevice_notifier(&br_device_notifier); brioctl_set(NULL); |