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| author | Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> | 2012-12-28 00:49:37 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-12-29 00:24:18 +0100 |
| commit | 4bf84c35c65f36a344fb7a6cde6274df4120efb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 09f7e45f4db6dc8fefd2910286aa3b0fcc5d50c2 /include | |
| parent | bnx2x: use ARRAY_SIZE where possible (diff) | |
| download | linux-4bf84c35c65f36a344fb7a6cde6274df4120efb8.tar.xz linux-4bf84c35c65f36a344fb7a6cde6274df4120efb8.zip | |
net: add change_carrier netdev op
This allows a driver to register change_carrier callback which will be
called whenever user will like to change carrier state. This is useful
for devices like dummy, gre, team and so on.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index c599e4782d45..0e1b92a0c1ec 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -891,6 +891,14 @@ struct netdev_fcoe_hbainfo { * int (*ndo_bridge_setlink)(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) * int (*ndo_bridge_getlink)(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, * struct net_device *dev) + * + * int (*ndo_change_carrier)(struct net_device *dev, bool new_carrier); + * Called to change device carrier. Soft-devices (like dummy, team, etc) + * which do not represent real hardware may define this to allow their + * userspace components to manage their virtual carrier state. Devices + * that determine carrier state from physical hardware properties (eg + * network cables) or protocol-dependent mechanisms (eg + * USB_CDC_NOTIFY_NETWORK_CONNECTION) should NOT implement this function. */ struct net_device_ops { int (*ndo_init)(struct net_device *dev); @@ -1008,6 +1016,8 @@ struct net_device_ops { int (*ndo_bridge_getlink)(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, struct net_device *dev); + int (*ndo_change_carrier)(struct net_device *dev, + bool new_carrier); }; /* @@ -2194,6 +2204,8 @@ extern int dev_set_mtu(struct net_device *, int); extern void dev_set_group(struct net_device *, int); extern int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *, struct sockaddr *); +extern int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *, + bool new_carrier); extern int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_queue *txq); |