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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-04-04 14:03:32 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-04 17:22:28 -0700
commitbb900b27a2f49b37bc38c08e656ea13048fee13b (patch)
treedbea65f697ee131de15a7b6d94466744ad346594 /net/bridge/br_notify.c
parent36fd2b63e3b4336744cf3f6a6c9543ecbec334a7 (diff)
bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink
Add netlink device ops to allow creating bridge device via netlink. This works in a manner similar to vlan, macvlan and bonding. Example: # ip link add link dev br0 type bridge # ip link del dev br0 The change required rearranging initializtion code to deal with being called by create link. Most of the initialization happens in br_dev_setup, but allocation of stats is done in ndo_init callback to deal with allocation failure. Sysfs setup has to wait until after the network device kobject is registered. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_notify.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_notify.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_notify.c b/net/bridge/br_notify.c
index 7d337c9b608..7a03bb97537 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_notify.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_notify.c
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, v
struct net_bridge *br;
int err;
+ /* register of bridge completed, add sysfs entries */
+ if ((dev->priv_flags && IFF_EBRIDGE) && event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
+ br_sysfs_addbr(dev);
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+ }
+
/* not a port of a bridge */
p = br_port_get_rtnl(dev);
if (!p)