From 44a0873d52282f24b1894c58c0f157e0f626ddc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:03:04 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 950c13fa60d..ff94e2b8df7 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5245,25 +5245,31 @@ void synchronize_net(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_net); /** - * unregister_netdevice - remove device from the kernel + * unregister_netdevice_queue - remove device from the kernel * @dev: device - * + * @head: list + * This function shuts down a device interface and removes it * from the kernel tables. + * If head not NULL, device is queued to be unregistered later. * * Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want * unregister_netdev() instead of this. */ -void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) +void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) { ASSERT_RTNL(); - rollback_registered(dev); - /* Finish processing unregister after unlock */ - net_set_todo(dev); + if (head) { + list_add_tail(&dev->unreg_list, head); + } else { + rollback_registered(dev); + /* Finish processing unregister after unlock */ + net_set_todo(dev); + } } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_queue); /** * unregister_netdev - remove device from the kernel -- cgit v1.2.3