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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-07-03 14:50:41 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-07-03 14:55:13 -0700
commit0c1072ae0242fbdffd9a0bba36e7a7033d287f9c (patch)
treee0f4dbdbf5078d4a707911177e7bdc17a70bdce5 /net/core/dev.c
parentc50cd357887acf9fd7af3a5d492911bd825555a2 (diff)
parent8bb495e3f02401ee6f76d1b1d77f3ac9f079e376 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c net/ipv4/gre.c The GRE conflict is between a bug fix (kfree_skb --> kfree_skb_list) and the splitting of the gre.c code into seperate files. The FEC conflict was two sets of changes adding ethtool support code in an "!CONFIG_M5272" CPP protected block. Finally the sh_eth.c conflict was between one commit add bits set in the .eesr_err_check mask whilst another commit removed the .tx_error_check member and assignments. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6a93cd8cd26..560dafd83ad 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -800,6 +800,40 @@ struct net_device *dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_index);
/**
+ * netdev_get_name - get a netdevice name, knowing its ifindex.
+ * @net: network namespace
+ * @name: a pointer to the buffer where the name will be stored.
+ * @ifindex: the ifindex of the interface to get the name from.
+ *
+ * The use of raw_seqcount_begin() and cond_resched() before
+ * retrying is required as we want to give the writers a chance
+ * to complete when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set.
+ */
+int netdev_get_name(struct net *net, char *name, int ifindex)
+{
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ unsigned int seq;
+
+retry:
+ seq = raw_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
+ if (!dev) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ strcpy(name, dev->name);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (read_seqcount_retry(&devnet_rename_seq, seq)) {
+ cond_resched();
+ goto retry;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
* dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu - find a device by its hardware address
* @net: the applicable net namespace
* @type: media type of device