net: Introduce unregister_netdevice_queue()
This patchs adds an unreg_list anchor to struct net_device, and
introduces an unregister_netdevice_queue() function, able to queue
a net_device to a list instead of immediately unregister it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 8380009..0ded0a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@
struct list_head dev_list;
struct list_head napi_list;
+ struct list_head unreg_list;
/* Net device features */
unsigned long features;
@@ -1116,7 +1117,13 @@
extern void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
extern int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
-extern void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
+extern void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct list_head *head);
+static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, NULL);
+}
+
extern void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
extern void synchronize_net(void);
extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);