Commit 8030f544 authored Feb 22, 2007 by Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller Feb 26, 2007

[IPV4] devinet: Register inetdev earlier.



This patch allocates inetdev at registration for all devices
in line with IPv6.  This allows sysctl configuration on the
devices to occur before they're brought up or addresses are
added.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

parent 45ba9dd2

net/ipv4/devinet.c

+5 −3

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		@@ -1054,13 +1054,15 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
		ASSERT_RTNL();

		if (!in_dev) {
		if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER && dev == &loopback_dev) {
		if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
		in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
		if (!in_dev)
		panic("devinet: Failed to create loopback\n");
		if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
		in_dev->cnf.no_xfrm = 1;
		in_dev->cnf.no_policy = 1;
		}
		}
		goto out;
		}