From 29bf24afb29042f568fa67b1b0eee46796725ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:12:11 +0100 Subject: net: add possibility to pass information about upper device via notifier Sometimes the drivers and other code would find it handy to know some internal information about upper device being changed. So allow upper-code to pass information down to notifier listeners during linking. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 939b8f3de810..aea556c64f2c 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2163,6 +2163,7 @@ struct netdev_notifier_changeupper_info { struct net_device *upper_dev; /* new upper dev */ bool master; /* is upper dev master */ bool linking; /* is the nofication for link or unlink */ + void *upper_info; /* upper dev info */ }; static inline void netdev_notifier_info_init(struct netdev_notifier_info *info, @@ -3620,7 +3621,7 @@ struct net_device *netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(struct net_device *dev); int netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *upper_dev); int netdev_master_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *upper_dev, - void *upper_priv); + void *upper_priv, void *upper_info); void netdev_upper_dev_unlink(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *upper_dev); void netdev_adjacent_rename_links(struct net_device *dev, char *oldname); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b