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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_notify.c b/net/bridge/br_notify.c
index 7d337c9b6082..7a03bb975375 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_notify.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_notify.c
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, v
         struct net_bridge *br;
         int err;
 
+        /* register of bridge completed, add sysfs entries */
+        if ((dev->priv_flags && IFF_EBRIDGE) && event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
+                br_sysfs_addbr(dev);
+                return NOTIFY_DONE;
+        }
+
         /* not a port of a bridge */
         p = br_port_get_rtnl(dev);
         if (!p)