summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/net
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorTom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>2006-07-30 20:43:26 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-08-02 13:38:20 -0700
commit792d1932e319ff8ba01361e7d151b1794c55c31f (patch)
treee4259bbccab44d311f7fd3d3ffc18557ae52c49c /net
parent3687b1dc6fe83a500ba4d3235704594f6a111a2d (diff)
downloadlinux-792d1932e319ff8ba01361e7d151b1794c55c31f.tar.bz2
[NET]: Network Event Notifier Mechanism.
This patch uses notifier blocks to implement a network event notifier mechanism. Clients register their callback function by calling register_netevent_notifier() like this: static struct notifier_block nb = { .notifier_call = my_callback_func }; ... register_netevent_notifier(&nb); Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/netevent.c69
1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netevent.c b/net/core/netevent.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..35d02c38554e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/core/netevent.c
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Network event notifiers
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
+ * Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Fixes:
+ */
+
+#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
+#include <linux/notifier.h>
+
+static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(netevent_notif_chain);
+
+/**
+ * register_netevent_notifier - register a netevent notifier block
+ * @nb: notifier
+ *
+ * Register a notifier to be called when a netevent occurs.
+ * The notifier passed is linked into the kernel structures and must
+ * not be reused until it has been unregistered. A negative errno code
+ * is returned on a failure.
+ */
+int register_netevent_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ err = atomic_notifier_chain_register(&netevent_notif_chain, nb);
+ return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * netevent_unregister_notifier - unregister a netevent notifier block
+ * @nb: notifier
+ *
+ * Unregister a notifier previously registered by
+ * register_neigh_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the
+ * kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code
+ * is returned on a failure.
+ */
+
+int unregister_netevent_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+ return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&netevent_notif_chain, nb);
+}
+
+/**
+ * call_netevent_notifiers - call all netevent notifier blocks
+ * @val: value passed unmodified to notifier function
+ * @v: pointer passed unmodified to notifier function
+ *
+ * Call all neighbour notifier blocks. Parameters and return value
+ * are as for notifier_call_chain().
+ */
+
+int call_netevent_notifiers(unsigned long val, void *v)
+{
+ return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&netevent_notif_chain, val, v);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_netevent_notifier);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_netevent_notifier);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_netevent_notifiers);