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net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier

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NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes
it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a
new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this.
The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be
set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg 2009-05-30 01:39:53 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent bdf6d32f93
commit 3b8bcfd5d3
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/notifier.h
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@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
#define NETDEV_CHANGENAME 0x000A
#define NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE 0x000B
#define NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER 0x000C
#define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D
#define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */
#define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN

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net/core/dev.c
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@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name)
int dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
{
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
int ret = 0;
int ret;
ASSERT_RTNL();
@ -1065,6 +1065,11 @@ int dev_open(struct net_device *dev)
if (!netif_device_present(dev))
return -ENODEV;
ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_PRE_UP, dev);
ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
if (ret)
return ret;
/*
* Call device private open method
*/