rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually
In order to support specifying device flags during device creation,
we must be able to roll back device registration in case setting the
flags fails without sending any notifications related to the device
to userspace.
This patch changes rollback_registered_many() and register_netdevice()
to manually send netlink notifications for devices not handled by
rtnl_link and allows to defer notifications for devices handled by
rtnl_link until setup is complete.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 7a2aea5..1bfda90 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -924,7 +924,12 @@
NETREG_UNREGISTERED, /* completed unregister todo */
NETREG_RELEASED, /* called free_netdev */
NETREG_DUMMY, /* dummy device for NAPI poll */
- } reg_state;
+ } reg_state:16;
+
+ enum {
+ RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED,
+ RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZING,
+ } rtnl_link_state:16;
/* Called from unregister, can be used to call free_netdev */
void (*destructor)(struct net_device *dev);
