net: introduce change lower state notifier
When lower device like bonding slave, team/bridge port, etc changes its
state, it is useful for others to notice this change. Currently this is
implemented specificly for bonding as NETDEV_BONDING_INFO notifier. This
patch aims to replace this specific usage and make this more generic to
be used for all upper-lower devices.
Introduce NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE netdev notifier type and
netdev_lower_state_changed() helper.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8ed8866..d1706e8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5756,6 +5756,26 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_nest_level);
+/**
+ * netdev_lower_change - Dispatch event about lower device state change
+ * @lower_dev: device
+ * @lower_state_info: state to dispatch
+ *
+ * Send NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE to netdev notifiers with info.
+ * The caller must hold the RTNL lock.
+ */
+void netdev_lower_state_changed(struct net_device *lower_dev,
+ void *lower_state_info)
+{
+ struct netdev_notifier_changelowerstate_info changelowerstate_info;
+
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+ changelowerstate_info.lower_state_info = lower_state_info;
+ call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE, lower_dev,
+ &changelowerstate_info.info);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_lower_state_changed);
+
static void dev_change_rx_flags(struct net_device *dev, int flags)
{
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;