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Commit 937f1ba5 authored by Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar Benjamin Herrenschmidt Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using it



This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device
structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and
initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule
NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be
used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single
NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.

It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the
oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add()

Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing
that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all).

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2950e952
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