ipv4: AF_INET link address family

Implements the AF_INET link address family exposing the per
device configuration settings via netlink using the attribute
IFLA_INET_CONF.

The format of IFLA_INET_CONF differs depending on the direction
the attribute is sent. The attribute sent by the kernel consists
of a u32 array, basically a 1:1 copy of in_device->cnf.data[].
The attribute expected by the kernel must consist of a sequence
of nested u32 attributes, each representing a change request,
e.g.
	[IFLA_INET_CONF] = {
		[IPV4_DEVCONF_FORWARDING] = 1,
		[IPV4_DEVCONF_NOXFRM] = 0,
	}

libnl userspace API documentation and example available from:
http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/doc-git/group__link__inet.html

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/if_link.h b/include/linux/if_link.h
index 443d04a66a79..2e02e4d7b11e 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_link.h
@@ -147,6 +147,14 @@ enum {
 #define IFLA_PAYLOAD(n) NLMSG_PAYLOAD(n,sizeof(struct ifinfomsg))
 #endif
 
+enum {
+	IFLA_INET_UNSPEC,
+	IFLA_INET_CONF,
+	__IFLA_INET_MAX,
+};
+
+#define IFLA_INET_MAX (__IFLA_INET_MAX - 1)
+
 /* ifi_flags.
 
    IFF_* flags.