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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>2010-11-16 04:30:14 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-17 11:28:24 -0800
commitf8ff182c716c6f11ca3061961f5722f26a14e101 (patch)
tree6ea721a7feb71850c61b9d02400d162674d91c21 /include/linux/if_link.h
parentd67ef35fff67845c64d806c033cc7c569ccebfff (diff)
rtnetlink: Link address family API
Each net_device contains address family specific data such as per device settings and statistics. We already expose this data via procfs/sysfs and partially netlink. The netlink method requires the requester to send one RTM_GETLINK request for each address family it wishes to receive data of and then merge this data itself. This patch implements a new API which combines all address family specific link data in a new netlink attribute IFLA_AF_SPEC. IFLA_AF_SPEC contains a sequence of nested attributes, one for each address family which in turn defines the structure of its own attribute. Example: [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = { [AF_INET] = { [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ..., }, [AF_INET6] = { [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ..., [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ..., } } The API also allows for address families to implement a function which parses the IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute sent by userspace to implement address family specific link options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/if_link.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/if_link.h19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/if_link.h b/include/linux/if_link.h
index 2fc66dd783ee..443d04a66a79 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_link.h
@@ -80,6 +80,24 @@ struct rtnl_link_ifmap {
__u8 port;
};
+/*
+ * IFLA_AF_SPEC
+ * Contains nested attributes for address family specific attributes.
+ * Each address family may create a attribute with the address family
+ * number as type and create its own attribute structure in it.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ * [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
+ * [AF_INET] = {
+ * [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ...,
+ * },
+ * [AF_INET6] = {
+ * [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ...,
+ * [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ...,
+ * }
+ * }
+ */
+
enum {
IFLA_UNSPEC,
IFLA_ADDRESS,
@@ -116,6 +134,7 @@ enum {
IFLA_STATS64,
IFLA_VF_PORTS,
IFLA_PORT_SELF,
+ IFLA_AF_SPEC,
__IFLA_MAX
};