devlink: create a special NDO for getting the devlink instance
authorJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:34:03 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:49:05 +0000 (08:49 -0800)
commitb473b0d23529cde6c825a592c035e9d910b19e21
tree9a3fbac499f820e7cb565296f79b5d0207d8d5ae
parentf4b6bcc7002f0e3a3428bac33cf1945abff95450
devlink: create a special NDO for getting the devlink instance

Instead of iterating over all devlink ports add a NDO which
will return the devlink instance from the driver.

v2: add the netdev_to_devlink() helper (Michal)
v3: check that devlink has ops (Florian)
v4: hold devlink_mutex (Jiri)

Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/net/devlink.h
net/core/devlink.c