[NET]: Network Event Notifier Mechanism.

This patch uses notifier blocks to implement a network event
notifier mechanism.

Clients register their callback function by calling
register_netevent_notifier() like this:

static struct notifier_block nb = {
        .notifier_call = my_callback_func
};

...

register_netevent_notifier(&nb);

Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netevent.h b/include/net/netevent.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e5d216241423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/netevent.h
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#ifndef _NET_EVENT_H
+#define _NET_EVENT_H
+
+/*
+ *      Generic netevent notifiers
+ *
+ *      Authors:
+ *      Tom Tucker              <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
+ *      Steve Wise              <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
+ *
+ *      Changes:
+ */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#include <net/dst.h>
+
+struct netevent_redirect {
+        struct dst_entry *old;
+        struct dst_entry *new;
+};
+
+enum netevent_notif_type {
+        NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE = 1, /* arg is struct neighbour ptr */
+        NETEVENT_PMTU_UPDATE,      /* arg is struct dst_entry ptr */
+        NETEVENT_REDIRECT,         /* arg is struct netevent_redirect ptr */
+};
+
+extern int register_netevent_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern int unregister_netevent_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern int call_netevent_notifiers(unsigned long val, void *v);
+
+#endif
+#endif