net: introduce NETDEV_POST_INIT notifier
For various purposes including a wireless extensions
bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation before
before netdev_register_kobject(). This will also ease
doing the dev type assignment that Marcel was working
on for cfg80211 drivers w/o touching them all.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h
index 44428d2..29714b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/notifier.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
#define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D
#define NETDEV_BONDING_OLDTYPE 0x000E
#define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F
+#define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0x0010
#define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */
#define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b8f74cf..a74c8fd 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4836,6 +4836,12 @@
dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO;
netdev_initialize_kobject(dev);
+
+ ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev);
+ ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_uninit;
+
ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev);
if (ret)
goto err_uninit;