netdev: network device operations infrastructure

This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative
operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure.

This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the
new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once.
For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list
still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new
net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers.

After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to
an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable.

Some function pointers aren't moved:
* destructor can't be in net_device_ops because
  it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded.
* neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special
  consideration
* hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 4dfb6b4d4559..6f8e0778e565 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -762,6 +762,7 @@ static int validate_linkmsg(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[])
 static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                       struct nlattr **tb, char *ifname, int modified)
 {
+        const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
         int send_addr_notify = 0;
         int err;
 
@@ -783,7 +784,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                 struct rtnl_link_ifmap *u_map;
                 struct ifmap k_map;
 
-                if (!dev->set_config) {
+                if (!ops->ndo_set_config) {
                         err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                         goto errout;
                 }
@@ -801,7 +802,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                 k_map.dma = (unsigned char) u_map->dma;
                 k_map.port = (unsigned char) u_map->port;
 
-                err = dev->set_config(dev, &k_map);
+                err = ops->ndo_set_config(dev, &k_map);
                 if (err < 0)
                         goto errout;
 
@@ -812,7 +813,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                 struct sockaddr *sa;
                 int len;
 
-                if (!dev->set_mac_address) {
+                if (!ops->ndo_set_mac_address) {
                         err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                         goto errout;
                 }
@@ -831,7 +832,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                 sa->sa_family = dev->type;
                 memcpy(sa->sa_data, nla_data(tb[IFLA_ADDRESS]),
                        dev->addr_len);
-                err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+                err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
                 kfree(sa);
                 if (err)
                         goto errout;