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authorVlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org>2011-01-24 03:37:29 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-01-24 23:23:28 -0800
commita512b92b3af4b03fc6834617a042dc85fbd4e34e (patch)
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net: add sysfs entry for device group
The group of a network device can be queried or changed from userspace using sysfs. For example, considering sysfs mounted in /sys, one can change the group that interface lo belongs to: echo 1 > /sys/class/net/lo/group Signed-off-by: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 81367ccf3306..2e4a393dfc3b 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -295,6 +295,20 @@ static ssize_t show_ifalias(struct device *dev,
return ret;
}
+NETDEVICE_SHOW(group, fmt_dec);
+
+static int change_group(struct net_device *net, unsigned long new_group)
+{
+ dev_set_group(net, (int) new_group);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t store_group(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ return netdev_store(dev, attr, buf, len, change_group);
+}
+
static struct device_attribute net_class_attributes[] = {
__ATTR(addr_assign_type, S_IRUGO, show_addr_assign_type, NULL),
__ATTR(addr_len, S_IRUGO, show_addr_len, NULL),
@@ -316,6 +330,7 @@ static struct device_attribute net_class_attributes[] = {
__ATTR(flags, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_flags, store_flags),
__ATTR(tx_queue_len, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_tx_queue_len,
store_tx_queue_len),
+ __ATTR(group, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_group, store_group),
{}
};