netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V4] IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:58:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:	roland@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, erezsh@...lanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V4] IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:56:36 +0300

> Add rtnl_link_ops to IPoIB, with the first usage being child device
> create/delete through them. Childs devices are now either legacy ones,
> created/deleted through the ipoib sysfs entries, or RTNL ones.
> 
> Adding support for RTNL childs involved refactoring of ipoib_vlan_add
> which is now used by both the sysfs and the link_ops code.
> 
> Also, added ndo_uninit entry to support calling unregister_netdevice_queue
> from the rtnl dellink entry. This required removal of calls to
> ipoib_dev_cleanup from the driver in flows which use unregister_netdevice,
> since the networking core will invoke ipoib_uninit which does exactly that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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