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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c9abc9fc770e..fda4e1039bf0 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -10736,26 +10736,20 @@ err_free_name: EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice); /* Initialize the core of a dummy net device. - * This is useful if you are calling this function after alloc_netdev(), - * since it does not memset the net_device fields. + * The setup steps dummy netdevs need which normal netdevs get by going + * through register_netdevice(). */ -static void init_dummy_netdev_core(struct net_device *dev) +static void init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev) { /* make sure we BUG if trying to hit standard * register/unregister code path */ dev->reg_state = NETREG_DUMMY; - /* NAPI wants this */ - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->napi_list); - /* a dummy interface is started by default */ set_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state); set_bit(__LINK_STATE_START, &dev->state); - /* napi_busy_loop stats accounting wants this */ - dev_net_set(dev, &init_net); - /* Note : We dont allocate pcpu_refcnt for dummy devices, * because users of this 'device' dont need to change * its refcount. @@ -11440,7 +11434,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_netdev); struct net_device *alloc_netdev_dummy(int sizeof_priv) { return alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, "dummy#", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, - init_dummy_netdev_core); + init_dummy_netdev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_netdev_dummy); |