netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier

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Message-Id: <20090529.220906.243061042.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 22:09:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 01:39:53 +0200

> NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes
> it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a
> new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this.
> The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be
> set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> ---
> John, please take this patch via your tree, I asked Dave and
> he's cool with that.

Yep:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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