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author | Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> | 2012-08-09 22:14:56 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-14 14:28:23 -0700 |
commit | ee89bab14e857678f83a71ee99e575b0fdbb58d4 (patch) | |
tree | 7af6dd9ff8e565dd91fe6324861d432a0cef836d /net/core | |
parent | 0f48917b93414a9c306a834b1b93307383956f44 (diff) | |
download | op-kernel-dev-ee89bab14e857678f83a71ee99e575b0fdbb58d4.zip op-kernel-dev-ee89bab14e857678f83a71ee99e575b0fdbb58d4.tar.gz |
net: move and rename netif_notify_peers()
I believe net/core/dev.c is a better place for netif_notify_peers(),
because other net event notify functions also stay in this file.
And rename it to netdev_notify_peers().
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 1f06df8..5defcf9 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1106,6 +1106,24 @@ void netdev_state_change(struct net_device *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_state_change); +/** + * netdev_notify_peers - notify network peers about existence of @dev + * @dev: network device + * + * Generate traffic such that interested network peers are aware of + * @dev, such as by generating a gratuitous ARP. This may be used when + * a device wants to inform the rest of the network about some sort of + * reconfiguration such as a failover event or virtual machine + * migration. + */ +void netdev_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev) +{ + rtnl_lock(); + call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev); + rtnl_unlock(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_notify_peers); + int netdev_bonding_change(struct net_device *dev, unsigned long event) { return call_netdevice_notifiers(event, dev); |