bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink
Add netlink device ops to allow creating bridge device via netlink.
This works in a manner similar to vlan, macvlan and bonding.
Example:
# ip link add link dev br0 type bridge
# ip link del dev br0
The change required rearranging initializtion code to deal with
being called by create link. Most of the initialization happens
in br_dev_setup, but allocation of stats is done in ndo_init callback
to deal with allocation failure. Sysfs setup has to wait until
after the network device kobject is registered.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
index 84bbb82..f20c4fd 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br.c
@@ -104,3 +104,4 @@
module_exit(br_deinit)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(BR_VERSION);
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("bridge");