[PATCH 2/3] net/dummy: add device group parameter
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From: Vlad Dogaru <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-10 11:38:55
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Revision v1 of 3 in this series.
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When inserting the dummy module, the user can specify the group of the dummy devices. This avoids manually moving the newly created pseudo devices to a different group. Signed-off-by: Vlad Dogaru <redacted> --- drivers/net/dummy.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dummy.c b/drivers/net/dummy.c
index ff2d29b..a974c05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dummy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dummy.c@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h> static int numdummies = 1; +static int ingroup; static int dummy_set_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) {
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops dummy_link_ops __read_mostly = { /* Number of dummy devices to be set up by this module. */ module_param(numdummies, int, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(numdummies, "Number of dummy pseudo devices"); +/* Group to add the dummy devices to. */ +module_param(ingroup, int, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ingroup, "Group the dummy devices belong to"); static int __init dummy_init_one(void) {
@@ -167,6 +171,7 @@ static int __init dummy_init_one(void) dev_dummy = alloc_netdev(0, "dummy%d", dummy_setup); if (!dev_dummy) return -ENOMEM; + dev_set_group(dev_dummy, ingroup); err = dev_alloc_name(dev_dummy, dev_dummy->name); if (err < 0)
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