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| author | Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> | 2019-02-07 17:14:32 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-02-11 12:38:51 -0800 |
| commit | 989723b00b7fecad9acad55b151c73ccf2eac3ca (patch) | |
| tree | fe1b23bc927071424cbd6ff3a31efd692bee57f2 /Documentation/networking/operstates.txt | |
| parent | 4d73eaee24ff0cc2736c304927c1425d2541d6ab (diff) | |
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Documentation: bring operstate documentation up-to-date
Netlink has moved from bitmasks to group numbers long ago.
Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/operstates.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt index 355c6d8ef8ad..b203d1334822 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ and changeable from userspace under certain rules. 2. Querying from userspace Both admin and operational state can be queried via the netlink -operation RTM_GETLINK. It is also possible to subscribe to RTMGRP_LINK -to be notified of updates. This is important for setting from userspace. +operation RTM_GETLINK. It is also possible to subscribe to RTNLGRP_LINK +to be notified of updates while the interface is admin up. This is +important for setting from userspace. These values contain interface state: @@ -101,8 +102,9 @@ because some driver controlled protocol establishment has to complete. Corresponding functions are netif_dormant_on() to set the flag, netif_dormant_off() to clear it and netif_dormant() to query. -On device allocation, networking core sets the flags equivalent to -netif_carrier_ok() and !netif_dormant(). +On device allocation, both flags __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER and +__LINK_STATE_DORMANT are cleared, so the effective state is equivalent +to netif_carrier_ok() and !netif_dormant(). Whenever the driver CHANGES one of these flags, a workqueue event is @@ -133,11 +135,11 @@ netif_carrier_ok() && !netif_dormant() is set by the driver. Afterwards, the userspace application can set IFLA_OPERSTATE to IF_OPER_DORMANT or IF_OPER_UP as long as the driver does not set netif_carrier_off() or netif_dormant_on(). Changes made by userspace -are multicasted on the netlink group RTMGRP_LINK. +are multicasted on the netlink group RTNLGRP_LINK. So basically a 802.1X supplicant interacts with the kernel like this: --subscribe to RTMGRP_LINK +-subscribe to RTNLGRP_LINK -set IFLA_LINKMODE to 1 via RTM_SETLINK -query RTM_GETLINK once to get initial state -if initial flags are not (IFF_LOWER_UP && !IFF_DORMANT), wait until |