bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink

Add netlink device ops to allow creating bridge device via netlink.
This works in a manner similar to vlan, macvlan and bonding.

Example:
  # ip link add link dev br0 type bridge
  # ip link del dev br0

The change required rearranging initializtion code to deal with
being called by create link. Most of the initialization happens
in br_dev_setup, but allocation of stats is done in ndo_init callback
to deal with allocation failure. Sysfs setup has to wait until
after the network device kobject is registered.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
stephen hemminger
2011-04-04 14:03:32 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 36fd2b63e3
commit bb900b27a2
5 changed files with 104 additions and 90 deletions

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@@ -104,3 +104,4 @@ module_init(br_init)
module_exit(br_deinit)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(BR_VERSION);
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("bridge");