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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-10-27 07:03:04 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-28 02:22:06 -0700
commit44a0873d52282f24b1894c58c0f157e0f626ddc9 (patch)
tree2d913650b6c9474f135546cf06fe5e8d174ef478 /include
parent83ab50a56e6ea94627fea83ce7b03332bd4c2f02 (diff)
downloadlinux-44a0873d52282f24b1894c58c0f157e0f626ddc9.tar.gz
net: Introduce unregister_netdevice_queue()
This patchs adds an unreg_list anchor to struct net_device, and
introduces an unregister_netdevice_queue() function, able to queue
a net_device to a list instead of immediately unregister it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 83800091a31a..0ded0a4768a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ struct net_device
 
 	struct list_head	dev_list;
 	struct list_head	napi_list;
+	struct list_head	unreg_list;
 
 	/* Net device features */
 	unsigned long		features;
@@ -1116,7 +1117,13 @@ extern int		dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void		dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
 extern int		dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern int		register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
-extern void		unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
+extern void		unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev,
+						   struct list_head *head);
+static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, NULL);
+}
+
 extern void		free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void		synchronize_net(void);
 extern int 		register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);