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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2012-12-27 23:49:39 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-12-28 15:24:18 -0800
commit9a57247f31e361f80508c40363366222dbbb6aa5 (patch)
treee125345af6ec8fc6e2788fc694141a38feb6f249
parentfdae0fde5352790030d89edd09f1b43b9bed97f8 (diff)
rtnl: expose carrier value with possibility to set it
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/operstates.txt4
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/if_link.h1
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c10
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
index 1a77a3cfae54..97694572338b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ set this flag. On netif_carrier_off(), the scheduler stops sending
packets. The name 'carrier' and the inversion are historical, think of
it as lower layer.
+Note that for certain kind of soft-devices, which are not managing any
+real hardware, there is possible to set this bit from userpsace.
+One should use TVL IFLA_CARRIER to do so.
+
netif_carrier_ok() can be used to query that bit.
__LINK_STATE_DORMANT, maps to IFF_DORMANT:
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index 60f3b6b90602..c4edfe11f1f7 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ enum {
#define IFLA_PROMISCUITY IFLA_PROMISCUITY
IFLA_NUM_TX_QUEUES,
IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES,
+ IFLA_CARRIER,
__IFLA_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 1868625af25e..2ef7a56ba117 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev,
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MTU */
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_LINK */
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MASTER */
+ + nla_total_size(1) /* IFLA_CARRIER */
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_PROMISCUITY */
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_NUM_TX_QUEUES */
+ nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES */
@@ -909,6 +910,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev->iflink)) ||
(dev->master &&
nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_MASTER, dev->master->ifindex)) ||
+ nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_CARRIER, netif_carrier_ok(dev)) ||
(dev->qdisc &&
nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_QDISC, dev->qdisc->ops->id)) ||
(dev->ifalias &&
@@ -1108,6 +1110,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
[IFLA_MTU] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_LINK] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_MASTER] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [IFLA_CARRIER] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[IFLA_TXQLEN] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_WEIGHT] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_OPERSTATE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
@@ -1438,6 +1441,13 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
modified = 1;
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_CARRIER]) {
+ err = dev_change_carrier(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_CARRIER]));
+ if (err)
+ goto errout;
+ modified = 1;
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);