net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it
This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.
It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()
Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/mal.h b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/mal.h
index 2f0a873..9ededfb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/mal.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/mal.h
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@
int index;
spinlock_t lock;
+ struct net_device dummy_dev;
+
unsigned int features;
};