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Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
e71992889e [RTNETLINK]: Introduce generic rtnl_create_link().
This routine gets the parsed rtnl attributes and creates a new
link with generic info (IFLA_LINKINFO policy). Its intention
is to help the drivers, that need to create several links at
once (like VETH).

This is nothing but a copy-paste-ed part of rtnl_newlink() function
that is responsible for creation of new device.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
38f7b870d4 [RTNETLINK]: Link creation API
Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:14:20 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
42bad1da50 [NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[]
  - netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[]
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all()
  - netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:57:41 -07:00
Thomas Graf
c454673da7 [NET] rules: Unified rules dumping
Implements a unified, protocol independant rules dumping function
which is capable of both, dumping a specific protocol family or
all of them. This speeds up dumping as less lookups are required.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:17 -07:00
Thomas Graf
e284986385 [RTNL]: Message handler registration interface
This patch adds a new interface to register rtnetlink message
handlers replacing the exported rtnl_links[] array which
required many message handlers to be exported unnecessarly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:04 -07:00