Name

netdev_master_upper_dev_link — Add a master link to the upper device

Synopsis

int netdev_master_upper_dev_link (struct net_device * dev,
 struct net_device * upper_dev);
 

Arguments

dev

device

upper_dev

new upper device

Description

Adds a link to device which is upper to this one. In this case, only one master upper device can be linked, although other non-master devices might be linked as well. The caller must hold the RTNL lock. On a failure a negative errno code is returned. On success the reference counts are adjusted and the function returns zero.