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author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2011-03-16 04:34:41 +0300 |
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committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2011-03-16 04:34:41 +0300 |
commit | 38f1cff0863809587b5fd10ecd0c24c8b543a48c (patch) | |
tree | 7cf6eb88cdc938c3683209d38311e711a1119400 /net/core/dev.c | |
parent | 4819d2e4310796c4e9eef674499af9b9caf36b5a (diff) | |
parent | 5359533801e3dd3abca5b7d3d985b0b33fd9fe8b (diff) | |
download | linux-38f1cff0863809587b5fd10ecd0c24c8b543a48c.tar.xz |
Merge commit '5359533801e3dd3abca5b7d3d985b0b33fd9fe8b' into drm-core-next
This commit changed an internal radeon structure, that meant a new driver
in -next had to be fixed up, merge in the commit and fix up the driver.
Also fixes a trivial nouveau merge.
Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_mem.c
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8ae6631abcc2..6561021d22d1 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1114,13 +1114,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change); void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name) { struct net_device *dev; + int no_module; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, name); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!dev && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - request_module("%s", name); + no_module = !dev; + if (no_module && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name); + if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) { + if (!request_module("%s", name)) + pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device " +"with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s " +"instead\n", name); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load); |