net: add change_carrier netdev op
This allows a driver to register change_carrier callback which will be
called whenever user will like to change carrier state. This is useful
for devices like dummy, gre, team and so on.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 515473e..21c5b97 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5027,6 +5027,25 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address);
+/**
+ * dev_change_carrier - Change device carrier
+ * @dev: device
+ * @new_carries: new value
+ *
+ * Change device carrier
+ */
+int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *dev, bool new_carrier)
+{
+ const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+
+ if (!ops->ndo_change_carrier)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ if (!netif_device_present(dev))
+ return -ENODEV;
+ return ops->ndo_change_carrier(dev, new_carrier);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_change_carrier);
+
/*
* Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside rcu_read_lock()
*/