commit a54acb3a6f853e8394c4cb7b6a4d93c88f13eefd
author Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Thu Apr 02 17:07:00 2015 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Thu Apr 02 14:04:59 2015 -0400
tree b1e887d2bc8c205d4fe3b331e40fddba5de6ee01
parent 033f46b3c13d4072d8ee6b26dd1e90fdd06895d0

dev: introduce dev_get_iflink()

The goal of this patch is to prepare the removal of the iflink field. It
introduces a new ndo function, which will be implemented by virtual interfaces.

There is no functional change into this patch. All readers of iflink field
now call dev_get_iflink().

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/core/rtnetlink.c

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index b96ac21..ee0186c 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1055,8 +1055,8 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_RPS
 	    nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES, dev->num_rx_queues) ||
 #endif
-	    (dev->ifindex != dev->iflink &&
-	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev->iflink)) ||
+	    (dev->ifindex != dev_get_iflink(dev) &&
+	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev_get_iflink(dev))) ||
 	    (upper_dev &&
 	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_MASTER, upper_dev->ifindex)) ||
 	    nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_CARRIER, netif_carrier_ok(dev)) ||
@@ -2863,8 +2863,8 @@
 	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_MASTER, br_dev->ifindex)) ||
 	    (dev->addr_len &&
 	     nla_put(skb, IFLA_ADDRESS, dev->addr_len, dev->dev_addr)) ||
-	    (dev->ifindex != dev->iflink &&
-	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev->iflink)))
+	    (dev->ifindex != dev_get_iflink(dev) &&
+	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev_get_iflink(dev))))
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	br_afspec = nla_nest_start(skb, IFLA_AF_SPEC);