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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2008-11-20 08:32:24 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-11-20 08:32:24 +0300 |
| commit | d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c7778b509cea814aa2b7115949667941037d07c /net/core/netpoll.c | |
| parent | 6b41e7dd90c6a628ab5fb8d781302d60a243b2ce (diff) | |
| download | linux-d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927.tar.xz | |
netdev: network device operations infrastructure
This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.
This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.
After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.
Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/netpoll.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/netpoll.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index fc4e28e23b89..630df6034444 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -172,12 +172,13 @@ static void service_arp_queue(struct netpoll_info *npi) void netpoll_poll(struct netpoll *np) { struct net_device *dev = np->dev; + const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; - if (!dev || !netif_running(dev) || !dev->poll_controller) + if (!dev || !netif_running(dev) || !ops->ndo_poll_controller) return; /* Process pending work on NIC */ - dev->poll_controller(dev); + ops->ndo_poll_controller(dev); poll_napi(dev); @@ -694,7 +695,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) atomic_inc(&npinfo->refcnt); } - if (!ndev->poll_controller) { + if (!ndev->netdev_ops->ndo_poll_controller) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: %s doesn't support polling, aborting.\n", np->name, np->dev_name); err = -ENOTSUPP; |