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[IPV4] devinet: Register inetdev earlier.

This patch allocates inetdev at registration for all devices
in line with IPv6.  This allows sysctl configuration on the
devices to occur before they're brought up or addresses are
added.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Herbert Xu 18 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 5 3
      net/ipv4/devinet.c

+ 5 - 3
net/ipv4/devinet.c

@@ -1054,12 +1054,14 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
 	if (!in_dev) {
-		if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER && dev == &loopback_dev) {
+		if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
 			in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
 			if (!in_dev)
 				panic("devinet: Failed to create loopback\n");
-			in_dev->cnf.no_xfrm = 1;
-			in_dev->cnf.no_policy = 1;
+			if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+				in_dev->cnf.no_xfrm = 1;
+				in_dev->cnf.no_policy = 1;
+			}
 		}
 		goto out;
 	}