netdev: network device operations infrastructure
This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.
This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.
After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.
Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 80c8f3d..95ab55c 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
char drivername[64];
WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_INFO "NETDEV WATCHDOG: %s (%s): transmit timed out\n",
dev->name, netdev_drivername(dev, drivername, 64));
- dev->tx_timeout(dev);
+ dev->netdev_ops->ndo_tx_timeout(dev);
}
if (!mod_timer(&dev->watchdog_timer,
round_jiffies(jiffies +
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
void __netdev_watchdog_up(struct net_device *dev)
{
- if (dev->tx_timeout) {
+ if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_tx_timeout) {
if (dev->watchdog_timeo <= 0)
dev->watchdog_timeo = 5*HZ;
if (!mod_timer(&dev->watchdog_timer,