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/net/rtnetlink.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/net/rtnetlink.h') 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[]); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b