linux.git/net/core/net-sysfs.c, branch v2.6.30

net: fix warning about non-const string

2009-03-10T12:22:43+00:00

Since dev_set_name takes a printf style string, new gcc complains
if arg is not const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Avoid race between network down and sysfs

2009-03-03T08:47:46+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: filter out uevent not belonging to init_net

2008-11-26T00:46:37+00:00

This patch will filter out the uevent not related to the init_net.
Without this patch if a network device is created in a network
namespace with the same name as one network device belonging to the
initial network namespace (eg. eth0), when the network namespace
will die and the network device will be destroyed, an event will
be sent and catched by the udevd daemon. That will result to have
the real network device to be shutdown because the udevd/uevent are
not namespace aware.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdev: introduce dev_get_stats()

2008-11-20T05:40:23+00:00

In order for the network device ops get_stats call to be immutable, the handling
of the default internal network device stats block has to be changed. Add a new
helper function which replaces the old use of internal_get_stats.

Note: change return code to make it clear that the caller should not
go changing the returned statistics.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

2008-11-10T21:55:14+00:00

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2

2008-10-28T00:51:47+00:00

To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
compiled and run at the same time.  To do this only
virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
in the kobject tree.

Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
hardware wise that needs device management there should
be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
by implication sysfs.  The gain in ease of testing
and code coverage should be significant.

Changelog:

v2: As pointed out by Benjamin Thery it only makes sense to call
    device_rename in the initial network namespace for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery 
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: network device name ifalias support

2008-09-23T04:28:11+00:00

This patch add support for keeping an additional character alias
associated with an network interface. This is useful for maintaining
the SNMP ifAlias value which is a user defined value. Routers use this
to hold information like which circuit or line it is connected to. It
is just an arbitrary text label on the network device.

There are two exposed interfaces with this patch, the value can be
read/written either via netlink or sysfs.

This could be maintained just by the snmp daemon, but it is more
generally useful for other management tools, and the kernel is good
place to act as an agreed upon interface to store it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wext: make sysfs bits optional and deprecate them

2008-07-14T18:52:57+00:00

The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not
used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext
ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch
makes them optional and schedules them for removal.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zero

2008-06-18T04:00:04+00:00

	Permit bonding to function rationally if max_bonds is set to
zero.  This will load the module, but create no master devices (which can
be created via sysfs).

	Requires some change to bond_create_sysfs; currently, the
netdev sysfs directory is determined from the first bonding device created,
but this is no longer possible.  Instead, an interface from net/core is
created to create and destroy files in net_class.

	Based on a patch submitted by Phil Oester .
Modified by Jay Vosburgh to fix the sysfs issue mentioned above and to
update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester 
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

net: The dev->get_stats pointer is not NULL nowadays.

2008-05-21T21:12:46+00:00

And so does the pointer is returns, but sysfs and netlinks still 
check for both cases.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller