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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
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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>
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diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index e013c68bfb00..35be0bbcd7da 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
@@ -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[]);