[PATCH 02/03] net/bridge: add support for EtherIP devices

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Sat Sep 23 2006 - 08:16:49 EST


This patch changes the device check in the bridge code to allow EtherIP
devices to be added.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@xxxxxxxx>
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.18-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.18-vanilla/net/bridge/br_if.c linux-2.6.18/net/bridge/br_if.c
--- linux-2.6.18-vanilla/net/bridge/br_if.c 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18/net/bridge/br_if.c 2006-09-20 23:03:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, str
struct net_bridge_port *p;
int err = 0;

- if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK || dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER)
+ if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK ||
+ dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER && dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHERIP)
return -EINVAL;

if (dev->hard_start_xmit == br_dev_xmit)