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Patrick McHardy
289c79a4bd vlan: Use bitmask of feature flags instead of seperate feature bits
Herbert Xu points out that the use of seperate feature bits for features
to be propagated to VLAN devices is going to get messy real soon.
Replace the VLAN feature bits by a bitmask of feature flags to be
propagated and restore the old GSO_SHIFT/MASK values.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-23 00:27:50 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
5fb1357054 [VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices
Propagate feature bits from the NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE notifier. For now
only TSO is propagated for devices that announce their ability to
support TSO in combination with VLAN accel by setting the NETIF_F_VLAN_TSO
flag.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-20 14:54:50 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
81d85346b3 vlan: Correctly handle device notifications for layered VLAN devices
Commit 30688a9 ([VLAN]: Handle vlan devices net namespace changing)
changed the device notifier to special-case notifications for VLAN
devices, effectively disabling state propagation to underlying VLAN
devices. This is needed for layered VLANs though, so restore the
original behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-20 14:37:36 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
30688a9a3e [VLAN]: Handle vlan devices net namespace changing.
When van device is moved to another namespace proc files,
related to this device, should also change one.

Use the netdev REGISTER and UNREGISTER event handlers for this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:57:01 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
65d292a2ef [VLAN]: Allow vlan devices registration in net namespaces.
This one is similar to what I've done for TUN - set the proper
net after device allocation and clean VLANs on net exit (use the
rtnl_kill_links helper finally).

Plus, drop explicit init_net usage and net != &init_net checks.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:56:37 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7a17a2f79f [VLAN]: Make the vlan_name_type per-net.
This includes moving one on the struct vlan_net and
s/vlan_name_type/vn->name_type/ over the code.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:56:18 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
cd1c701432 [VLAN]: Add a net argument to proc init and cleanup calls.
All proc files will be created in each net, so prepare them for 
this change now, not to mess it with real creation patch.

The net != &init_net checks in them are for git-bisect sanity, 
but I will drop them soon.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:51:12 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
d9ed0f0e2d [VLAN]: Introduce the vlan_net structure and init/exit net ops.
Unlike TUN, it is empty from the very beginning, and will 
be eventually populated later.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:49:09 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
a9fde26078 [VLAN]: Tag vlan_group_device with net device, not ifindex.
Currently vlan group is searched using one key - the ifindex.
We'll have to lookup the vlan_group by two keys - ifindex and
net. Turning the vlan_group lookup key to struct net_device
pointer will make this process easier.

Besides, this will eliminate one more place in the networking,
that assumes that indexes are unique in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-16 00:48:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
e1ec1b8ccd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/s2io.c
2008-04-02 22:35:23 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
802fb176d8 [VLAN]: Proc entry is not renamed when vlan device name changes.
This may lead to situations, when each of two proc entries produce
data for the other's device.

Looks like a BUG, so this patch is for net-2.6. It will not apply to
net-2.6.26 since dev->nd_net access is replaced with dev_net(dev)
one.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-02 00:08:01 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
67727184f2 [VLAN]: Reduce memory consumed by vlan_groups
Currently each vlan_groupd contains 8 pointers on arrays with 512
pointers on struct net_device each  :)  Such a construction "in many
cases ... wastes memory".

My proposal is to allow for some of these arrays pointers be NULL,
meaning that there are no devices in it. When a new device is added
to the vlan_group, the appropriate array is allocated.

The check in vlan_group_get_device's is safe, since the pointer
vg->vlan_devices_arrays[x] can only switch from NULL to not-NULL.
The vlan_group_prealloc_vid() is guarded with rtnl lock and is
also safe.

I've checked (I hope that) all the places, that use these arrays
and found, that the register_vlan_dev is the only place, that can
put a vlan device on an empty vlan_group.

Rough calculations shows, that after the patch a setup with a
single vlan dev (or up to 512 vlans with sequential vids) will
occupy approximately 8 times less memory.

The question I have is - does this patch makes sense, or a totally
new structures are required to store the vlan_devs?

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-03-26 16:27:22 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Patrick McHardy
ad712087f7 [VLAN]: Update list address
VLAN related mail should go to netdev.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
2029cc2c84 [VLAN]: checkpatch cleanups
Checkpatch cleanups, consisting mainly of overly long lines and
missing spaces.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:33 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
9dfebcc647 [VLAN]: Turn VLAN_DEV_INFO into inline function
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:32 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
af30151709 [VLAN]: Simplify vlan unregistration
Keep track of the number of VLAN devices in a vlan group. This allows
to have the caller sense when the group is going to be destroyed and
stop using it, which in turn allows to remove the wrapper around
unregister_vlan_dev for the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier and avoid
iterating over all possible VLAN ids whenever a device in unregistered.

Also fix what looks like a use-after-free (but is actually safe since
we're holding the RTNL), the real_dev reference should not be dropped
while we still use it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:31 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
acc5efbcd2 [VLAN]: Clean up unregister_vlan_dev
Save two levels of indentation by aborting on error conditions,
remove unnecessary initialization to NULL and remove two obvious
comments.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:30 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
69ab4b7d6d [VLAN]: Clean up initialization code
- move module init/exit functions to end of file, remove some now unnecessary
  forward declarations
- remove some obvious comments
- clean up proc init function and move a proc-related printk there

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:30 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
198a291ce3 [VLAN]: Remove non-implemented ioctls
The GET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD/GET_VLAN_EGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD ioctls are
not implemented and won't be, new functionality will be added to the netlink
interface. Remove the code and make the ioctl handler return -EOPNOTSUPP
for unknown commands instead of -EINVAL.

Also remove a comment about passing unknown commands to the underlying
device, that doesn't make any sense since its a VLAN specific ioctl and
if its not implemented here, its implemented nowhere.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:29 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
40f98e1af4 [VLAN]: Clean up debugging and printks
- use pr_* functions and common prefix for non-device related messages

- remove VLAN_ printk levels

- kill lots of useless debugging statements

- remove a few unnecessary printks like for double VID registration (already
  returns -EEXIST) and kill of a number of unnecessary checks in
  vlan_proc_{add,rem}_dev() that are already performed by the caller

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:28 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
ef3eb3e59b [VLAN]: Move device setup to vlan_dev.c
Move device setup to vlan_dev.c and make all the VLAN device methods
static.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
7bd38d778e [VLAN]: Use dev->stats
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:25 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
b7a4a83629 [VLAN]: Kill useless VLAN_NAME define
The only user already includes __FUNCTION__ (vlan_proto_init) in the
output, which is enough to identify what the message is about.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:25 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski
0fe1e567d0 [VLAN]: nested VLAN: fix lockdep's recursive locking warning
Allow vlans nesting other vlans without lockdep's warnings (max. 2 levels
i.e. parent + child). Thanks to Patrick McHardy for pointing a bug in the
first version of this patch.

Reported-by: Benny Amorsen

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-10 22:38:31 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
3f03e38789 [VLAN]: Fix potential race in vlan_cleanup_module vs vlan_ioctl_handler.
The vlan module cleanup function starts with

	vlan_netlink_fini();
	vlan_ioctl_set(NULL);

The first call removes all the vlan devices and
the second one closes the vlan ioctl.

AFAIS there's a tiny race window between these two
calls - after rtnl unregistered all the vlans, but
the ioctl handler isn't set to NULL yet, user can
manage to call this ioctl and create one vlan device,
and that this function will later BUG_ON seeing
non-emply hashes.

I think, that we must first close the vlan ioctl
and only after this remove all the vlans with the
vlan_netlink_fini() call.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-11 02:45:32 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e35de02615 [VLAN]: Lost rtnl_unlock() in vlan_ioctl()
The SET_VLAN_NAME_TYPE_CMD command w/o CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
doesn't release the rtnl lock.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-07 01:07:55 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
39aaac114e [VLAN]: Allow setting mac address while device is up
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:52:35 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
d932e04a5e [VLAN]: Don't synchronize addresses while the vlan device is down
While the VLAN device is down, the unicast addresses are not configured
on the underlying device, so we shouldn't attempt to sync them.

Noticed by Dmitry Butskoy <buc@odusz.so-cdu.ru>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:51:40 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
fffe470a80 [VLAN]: Fix SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD ioctl
Based on report and patch by Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com>:

vconfig returns the following error when attempting to execute the
set_ingress_map command:

vconfig: socket or ioctl error for set_ingress_map: Operation not permitted

In vlan.c, vlan_ioctl_handler for SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD
sets err = -EPERM and calls vlan_dev_set_ingress_priority.
vlan_dev_set_ingress_priority is a void function so err remains
at -EPERM and results in the vconfig error (even though the ingress
map was set).

Fix by setting err = 0 after the vlan_dev_set_ingress_priority call.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:02 -08:00
Ursula Braun
3607c44676 [8021Q]: transfer dev_id from real device
A net_device struct provides field dev_id. It is used for
unique ipv6 generation in case of shared network cards
(as for the OSA network cards of IBM System z).
If VLAN devices are built on top of such shared network cards,
this dev_id information needs to be transferred to the VLAN device.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:56 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e9dc865340 [NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Al Viro
d9f30ec0b0 [VLAN]: Fix net_device leak.
In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit
e89fe42cd0), a pile of code got moved
to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying
device.  However, original dev_hold() had been left behind, so we
leak a reference to net_device now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16 16:43:04 -07:00
Andrew Morton
3f5f4346b6 [8021Q]: vlan_ioctl_handler: fix return value
net/8021q/vlan.c: In function 'vlan_ioctl_handler':
net/8021q/vlan.c:700: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

The warning is incorrect, but from my reading this ioctl will return -EINVAL
on success.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:37:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a7ecfc8665 [VLAN]: Fix memset length
Fix sizeof(ETH_ALEN) Introduced by my rtnl_link patches.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 18:56:30 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6c78dcbd47 [VLAN]: Fix promiscous/allmulti synchronization races
The set_multicast_list function may be called without holding the rtnl
mutex, resulting in races when changing the underlying device's promiscous
and allmulti state. Use the change_rx_mode hook, which is always invoked
under the rtnl.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 18:52:56 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
0e06877c6f [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address
Drivers need to validate the initial addresses in their netlink attribute
validation function or manually reject them if they can't support this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11 19:45:36 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2d85cba2b2 [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification
All drivers need to unregister their devices in the module unload function.
While doing so they must hold the rtnl and atomically unregister the
rtnl_link ops as well. This makes the rtnl_link_unregister function that
takes the rtnl itself completely useless.

Provide default newlink/dellink functions, make __rtnl_link_unregister and
rtnl_link_unregister unregister all devices with matching rtnl_link_ops and
change the existing users to take advantage of that.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11 19:45:33 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
8c979c26a0 [VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling
The VLAN MAC address handling is broken in multiple ways. When the address
differs when setting it, the real device is put in promiscous mode twice,
but never taken out again. Additionally it doesn't resync when the real
device's address is changed and needlessly puts it in promiscous mode when
the vlan device is still down.

Fix by moving address handling to vlan_dev_open/vlan_dev_stop and properly
deal with address changes in the device notifier. Also switch to
dev_unicast_add (which needs the exact same handling).

Since the set_mac_address handler is identical to the generic ethernet one
with these changes, kill it and use ether_setup().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11 19:45:24 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
07b5b17e15 [VLAN]: Use rtnl_link API
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a4bf3af4ac [VLAN]: Introduce symbolic constants for flag values
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:02 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2ae0bf69b7 [VLAN]: Return proper error codes in register_vlan_device
The returned device is unused, return proper error codes instead and avoid
having the ioctl handler guess the error.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e89fe42cd0 [VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function
Move device registration and configuration of the underlying device to a
seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
c1d3ee9925 [VLAN]: Split up device checks
Move the checks of the underlying device to a seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
42429aaee5 [VLAN]: Move vlan_group allocation to seperate function
Move group allocation to a seperate function to clean up the code a bit
and allocate groups before registering the device. Device registration
is globally visible and causes netlink events, so we shouldn't fail
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2f4284a406 [VLAN]: Move some device intialization code to dev->init callback
Move some device initialization code to new dev->init callback to make
it shareable with netlink. Additionally this fixes a minor bug, dev->iflink
is set after registration, which causes an incorrect value in the initial
netlink message.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:39 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
c17d8874f9 [VLAN]: Convert name-based configuration functions to struct netdevice *
Move the device lookup and checks to the ioctl handler under the RTNL and
change all name-based interfaces to take a struct net_device * instead.

This allows to use them from a netlink interface, which identifies devices
based on ifindex not name. It also avoids races between the ioctl interface
and the (upcoming) netlink interface since now all changes happen under the
RTNL.

As a nice side effect this greatly simplifies error handling in the helper
functions and fixes a number of incorrect error codes like -EINVAL for
device not found.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:38 -07:00