net: rtnetlink: introduce helper to get net_device instance by ifname

Introduce helper function rtnl_get_dev() that gets net_device structure
instance pointer according to passed ifname or ifname attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jiri Pirko 2019-09-30 11:48:19 +02:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit cc6090e985