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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2012-05-11 22:59:11 -0700
committerOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2012-05-11 22:59:11 -0700
commit4a0dfe69fe489b06ae5bad26ae67ae8aefaca3aa (patch)
treecdac4232b95103402e8328815be80105620d41f2 /net/core/dev.c
parentMerge branch 'for-3.5/gpio-pinmux' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/swarren/linux-tegra into next/pinctrl (diff)
parentARM: mxs: enable pinctrl support (diff)
Merge branch 'imx/pinctrl/for-3.5' of git://git.linaro.org/people/shawnguo/linux-2.6 into next/pinctrl
* 'imx/pinctrl/for-3.5' of git://git.linaro.org/people/shawnguo/linux-2.6: (290 commits) ARM: mxs: enable pinctrl support video: mxsfb: adopt pinctrl support ASoC: mxs-saif: adopt pinctrl support i2c: mxs: adopt pinctrl support mtd: nand: gpmi: adopt pinctrl support mmc: mxs-mmc: adopt pinctrl support serial: mxs-auart: adopt pinctrl support serial: amba-pl011: adopt pinctrl support spi/imx: adopt pinctrl support i2c: imx: adopt pinctrl support can: flexcan: adopt pinctrl support net: fec: adopt pinctrl support tty: serial: imx: adopt pinctrl support mmc: sdhci-imx-esdhc: adopt pinctrl support ARM: imx6q: switch to use pinctrl subsystem ARM: mxs: enable pinctrl dummy states ARM: imx: enable pinctrl dummy states +3.4-rc5 update
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
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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;
}