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Stephen Hemminger 0fe554a46a hv_netvsc: propogate Hyper-V friendly name into interface alias
This patch implement the 'Device Naming' feature of the Hyper-V
network device API. In Hyper-V on the host through the GUI or PowerShell
it is possible to enable the device naming feature which causes
the host to make available to the guest the name of the device.
This shows up in the RNDIS protocol as the friendly name.

The name has no particular meaning and is limited to 256 characters.
The value can only be set via PowerShell on the host, but could
be scripted for mass deployments. The default value is the
string 'Network Adapter' and since that is the same for all devices
and useless, the driver ignores it.

In Windows, the value goes into a registry key for use in SNMP
ifAlias. For Linux, this patch puts the value in the network
device alias property; where it is visible in ip tools and SNMP.

The host provided ifAlias is just a suggestion, and can be
overridden by later ip commands.

Also requires exporting dev_set_alias in netdev core.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-18 21:19:46 -04:00
arch xen: fixes for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 11:04:35 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto MIPS changes for 4.17 2018-04-10 11:39:22 -07:00
Documentation soc: ti: K2G: enhancement to support QMSS in K2G NAVSS 2018-04-18 21:00:56 -04:00
drivers hv_netvsc: propogate Hyper-V friendly name into interface alias 2018-04-18 21:19:46 -04:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This pull request contains updates for both UBI and UBIFS: 2018-04-11 16:39:34 -07:00
include soc: ti: K2G: provide APIs to support driver probe deferral 2018-04-18 21:00:56 -04:00
init seq_file: allocate seq_file from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:36 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: shm_split(): remove unneeded test for NULL shm_file_data.vm_ops 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
kernel xdp: transition into using xdp_frame for return API 2018-04-17 10:50:29 -04:00
lib Fix for one swiotlb regression in 2.16 from Takashi. 2018-04-12 11:00:48 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
net hv_netvsc: propogate Hyper-V friendly name into interface alias 2018-04-18 21:19:46 -04:00
samples remoteproc updates for v4.17 2018-04-10 12:09:27 -07:00
scripts asm-generic fixes for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 09:15:48 -07:00
security ipc/msg: introduce msgctl(MSG_STAT_ANY) 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-10 10:16:04 -07:00
tools selftest: tc_flower: add testcase for 'ip_flags' 2018-04-17 13:41:54 -04:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.17 2018-04-11 16:12:21 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.