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rtnetlink: Link address family API

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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>
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Thomas Graf
2010-11-16 04:30:14 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d67ef35fff
commit f8ff182c71
3 changed files with 195 additions and 2 deletions
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include/net/rtnetlink.h
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@@ -83,6 +83,37 @@ extern void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern int rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops);
/**
* struct rtnl_af_ops - rtnetlink address family operations
*
* @list: Used internally
* @family: Address family
* @fill_link_af: Function to fill IFLA_AF_SPEC with address family
* specific netlink attributes.
* @get_link_af_size: Function to calculate size of address family specific
* netlink attributes exlusive the container attribute.
* @parse_link_af: Function to parse a IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute and modify
* net_device accordingly.
*/
struct rtnl_af_ops {
struct list_head list;
int family;
int (*fill_link_af)(struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct net_device *dev);
size_t (*get_link_af_size)(const struct net_device *dev);
int (*parse_link_af)(struct net_device *dev,
const struct nlattr *attr);
};
extern int __rtnl_af_register(struct rtnl_af_ops *ops);
extern void __rtnl_af_unregister(struct rtnl_af_ops *ops);
extern int rtnl_af_register(struct rtnl_af_ops *ops);
extern void rtnl_af_unregister(struct rtnl_af_ops *ops);
extern struct net *rtnl_link_get_net(struct net *src_net, struct nlattr *tb[]);
extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *src_net, struct net *net,
char *ifname, const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[]);