From afe12cc86b0ba545a01ad8716539ab07ab6e9e89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michał Mirosław Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 03:22:17 +0000 Subject: net: introduce netdev_change_features() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It will be needed by bonding and other drivers changing vlan_features after ndo_init callback. As a bonus, this includes kernel-doc for netdev_update_features(). Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 75898a32c03..ea23353e625 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5289,6 +5289,14 @@ int __netdev_update_features(struct net_device *dev) return 1; } +/** + * netdev_update_features - recalculate device features + * @dev: the device to check + * + * Recalculate dev->features set and send notifications if it + * has changed. Should be called after driver or hardware dependent + * conditions might have changed that influence the features. + */ void netdev_update_features(struct net_device *dev) { if (__netdev_update_features(dev)) @@ -5296,6 +5304,23 @@ void netdev_update_features(struct net_device *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_update_features); +/** + * netdev_change_features - recalculate device features + * @dev: the device to check + * + * Recalculate dev->features set and send notifications even + * if they have not changed. Should be called instead of + * netdev_update_features() if also dev->vlan_features might + * have changed to allow the changes to be propagated to stacked + * VLAN devices. + */ +void netdev_change_features(struct net_device *dev) +{ + __netdev_update_features(dev); + netdev_features_change(dev); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_change_features); + /** * netif_stacked_transfer_operstate - transfer operstate * @rootdev: the root or lower level device to transfer state from -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2