From f8ff182c716c6f11ca3061961f5722f26a14e101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:30:14 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/if_link.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/if_link.h b/include/linux/if_link.h index 2fc66dd783ee..443d04a66a79 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/linux/if_link.h @@ -80,6 +80,24 @@ struct rtnl_link_ifmap { __u8 port; }; +/* + * IFLA_AF_SPEC + * Contains nested attributes for address family specific attributes. + * Each address family may create a attribute with the address family + * number as type and create its own attribute structure in it. + * + * Example: + * [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = { + * [AF_INET] = { + * [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ..., + * }, + * [AF_INET6] = { + * [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ..., + * [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ..., + * } + * } + */ + enum { IFLA_UNSPEC, IFLA_ADDRESS, @@ -116,6 +134,7 @@ enum { IFLA_STATS64, IFLA_VF_PORTS, IFLA_PORT_SELF, + IFLA_AF_SPEC, __IFLA_MAX }; -- cgit