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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-07-14 16:37:25 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-15 16:13:07 -0700
commit5517750f058edd111bcabe5e116056cc63b1f39c (patch)
tree200173a4d60aa65dc22ece6efa83b8e0f5dd2a29 /net/core
parentc835a677331495cf137a7f8a023463afd9f032f8 (diff)
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net: rtnetlink - make create_link take name_assign_type
This passes down NET_NAME_USER (or NET_NAME_ENUM) to alloc_netdev(), for any device created over rtnetlink. v9: restore reverse-christmas-tree order of local variables Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 5998643..e991802 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1810,7 +1810,8 @@ int rtnl_configure_link(struct net_device *dev, const struct ifinfomsg *ifm)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtnl_configure_link);
struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *net,
- char *ifname, const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[])
+ char *ifname, unsigned char name_assign_type,
+ const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[])
{
int err;
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -1828,7 +1829,7 @@ struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *net,
num_rx_queues = ops->get_num_rx_queues();
err = -ENOMEM;
- dev = alloc_netdev_mqs(ops->priv_size, ifname, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
+ dev = alloc_netdev_mqs(ops->priv_size, ifname, name_assign_type,
ops->setup, num_tx_queues, num_rx_queues);
if (!dev)
goto err;
@@ -1894,6 +1895,7 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX+1];
struct nlattr *linkinfo[IFLA_INFO_MAX+1];
+ unsigned char name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER;
int err;
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
@@ -2046,14 +2048,16 @@ replay:
if (!ops->setup)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- if (!ifname[0])
+ if (!ifname[0]) {
snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, "%s%%d", ops->kind);
+ name_assign_type = NET_NAME_ENUM;
+ }
dest_net = rtnl_link_get_net(net, tb);
if (IS_ERR(dest_net))
return PTR_ERR(dest_net);
- dev = rtnl_create_link(dest_net, ifname, ops, tb);
+ dev = rtnl_create_link(dest_net, ifname, name_assign_type, ops, tb);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto out;
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