From d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:32:24 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/Kconfig | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/Kconfig') diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 8c3d97ca0d96..4e2e40ba8ba6 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ config NET_NS Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances of the network stack. +config COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS + def_bool y + source "net/packet/Kconfig" source "net/unix/Kconfig" source "net/xfrm/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2