linux.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v2.6.23

[RTNETLINK]: Fix warning for !CONFIG_KMOD

2007-07-31T21:13:50+00:00

replay label is unused otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET] CORE: Fix whitespace errors.

2007-07-19T01:43:23+00:00

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address

2007-07-12T02:45:36+00:00

Drivers need to validate the initial addresses in their netlink attribute
validation function or manually reject them if they can't support this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification

2007-07-12T02:45:33+00:00

All drivers need to unregister their devices in the module unload function.
While doing so they must hold the rtnl and atomically unregister the
rtnl_link ops as well. This makes the rtnl_link_unregister function that
takes the rtnl itself completely useless.

Provide default newlink/dellink functions, make __rtnl_link_unregister and
rtnl_link_unregister unregister all devices with matching rtnl_link_ops and
change the existing users to take advantage of that.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patch

2007-07-11T05:15:40+00:00

Sent the wrong patch previously.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attribute

2007-07-11T05:15:39+00:00

Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

The attribute looks like this:

struct {
        [ compat contents ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = total size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } rta;
        struct old_structure struct;

        [ nested top-level attribute ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = nest size,
                .rta_type       = type,
        } nest_attr;

        [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ]
        struct rtattr {
                .rta_len        = private attribute len,
                .rta_type       = private attribute typ,
        } nested_attr;
        struct nested_data data;
};

Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are
larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and
ignore the rest.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Link creation API

2007-07-11T05:14:20+00:00

Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: Split up rtnl_setlink

2007-07-11T05:14:16+00:00

Split up rtnl_setlink into a function performing validation and a function
performing the actual changes. This allows to share the modifcation logic
with rtnl_newlink, which is introduced by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RTNETLINK]: ifindex 0 does not exist

2007-06-07T20:40:11+00:00

ifindex == 0 does not exist and implies we should do a lookup by name if
one was given.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const

2007-06-07T20:40:10+00:00

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller