The sysfs code in batman-adv was could create a new batadv interfaces on demand when a string (interface name) was written to the batman-adv/mesh_iface file. But the code no longer exists in the current batman-adv codebase. The helper code to implement this behavior must be considered as unused and can be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 12 ++---------- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 34 +-------------------------------- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h | 2 -- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index 4a6a25d5..9a78789b 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -725,17 +725,9 @@ int batadv_hardif_enable_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface, kref_get(&hard_iface->refcount);
soft_iface = dev_get_by_name(net, iface_name); - if (!soft_iface) { - soft_iface = batadv_softif_create(net, iface_name); - - if (!soft_iface) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto err; - } - - /* dev_get_by_name() increases the reference counter for us */ - dev_hold(soft_iface); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto err; }
if (!batadv_softif_is_valid(soft_iface)) { diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c index a21884c0..0c5b3425 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ #include <linux/netdevice.h> #include <linux/netlink.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> -#include <linux/printk.h> #include <linux/random.h> #include <linux/rculist.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> @@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ #include <linux/stddef.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/types.h> +#include <net/net_namespace.h> #include <net/netlink.h> #include <uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h> #include <uapi/linux/batman_adv.h> @@ -1086,38 +1086,6 @@ static int batadv_softif_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, return register_netdevice(dev); }
-/** - * batadv_softif_create() - Create and register soft interface - * @net: the applicable net namespace - * @name: name of the new soft interface - * - * Return: newly allocated soft_interface, NULL on errors - */ -struct net_device *batadv_softif_create(struct net *net, const char *name) -{ - struct net_device *soft_iface; - int ret; - - soft_iface = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct batadv_priv), name, - NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, batadv_softif_init_early); - if (!soft_iface) - return NULL; - - dev_net_set(soft_iface, net); - - soft_iface->rtnl_link_ops = &batadv_link_ops; - - ret = register_netdevice(soft_iface); - if (ret < 0) { - pr_err("Unable to register the batman interface '%s': %i\n", - name, ret); - free_netdev(soft_iface); - return NULL; - } - - return soft_iface; -} - /** * batadv_softif_destroy_netlink() - deletion of batadv_soft_interface via * netlink diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h index 38b0ad18..67a2ddd6 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h +++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h @@ -12,14 +12,12 @@ #include <linux/netdevice.h> #include <linux/skbuff.h> #include <linux/types.h> -#include <net/net_namespace.h> #include <net/rtnetlink.h>
int batadv_skb_head_push(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len); void batadv_interface_rx(struct net_device *soft_iface, struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size, struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node); -struct net_device *batadv_softif_create(struct net *net, const char *name); bool batadv_softif_is_valid(const struct net_device *net_dev); extern struct rtnl_link_ops batadv_link_ops; int batadv_softif_create_vlan(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, unsigned short vid);