For various purposes including a wireless extensions bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation before before netdev_register_kobject(). This will also ease doing the dev type assignment that Marcel was working on for cfg80211 drivers w/o touching them all. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I decided that it doesn't make a lot of sense to be after ndo_init but before the other name/... checks. include/linux/notifier.h | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/notifier.h 2009-09-28 10:14:54.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/include/linux/notifier.h 2009-09-28 10:16:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int #define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D #define NETDEV_BONDING_OLDTYPE 0x000E #define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F +#define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0x0010 #define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ #define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN --- wireless-testing.orig/net/core/dev.c 2009-09-28 10:14:54.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/core/dev.c 2009-09-28 10:20:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -4785,6 +4785,11 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG) dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO; + ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev); + ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); + if (ret) + goto err_uninit; + netdev_initialize_kobject(dev); ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev); if (ret) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
