linux-stable/net
Patrick McHardy 3729d50212 rtnetlink: support specifying device flags on device creation
commit e8469ed959c373c2ff9e6f488aa5a14971aebe1f
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date:   Tue Feb 23 20:41:30 2010 +0100

Support specifying the initial device flags when creating a device though
rtnl_link. Devices allocated by rtnl_create_link() are marked as INITIALIZING
in order to surpress netlink registration notifications. To complete setup,
rtnl_configure_link() must be called, which performs the device flag changes
and invokes the deferred notifiers if everything went well.

Two examples:

# add macvlan to eth0
#
$ ip link add link eth0 up allmulticast on type macvlan

[LINK]11: macvlan0@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/ether 26:f8:84:02:f9:2a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ROUTE]ff00::/8 dev macvlan0  table local  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0
[ROUTE]fe80::/64 dev macvlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0
[LINK]11: macvlan0@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500
    link/ether 26:f8:84:02:f9:2a
[ADDR]11: macvlan0    inet6 fe80::24f8:84ff:fe02:f92a/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
[ROUTE]local fe80::24f8:84ff:fe02:f92a via :: dev lo  table local  proto none  metric 0  mtu 16436 advmss 16376 hoplimit 0
[ROUTE]default via fe80::215:e9ff:fef0:10f8 dev macvlan0  proto kernel  metric 1024  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0
[NEIGH]fe80::215:e9ff:fef0:10f8 dev macvlan0 lladdr 00:15:e9:f0:10:f8 router STALE
[ROUTE]2001:6f8:974::/64 dev macvlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires 0sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0
[PREFIX]prefix 2001:6f8:974::/64 dev macvlan0 onlink autoconf valid 14400 preferred 131084
[ADDR]11: macvlan0    inet6 2001:6f8:974:0:24f8:84ff:fe02:f92a/64 scope global dynamic
       valid_lft 86399sec preferred_lft 14399sec

# add VLAN to eth1, eth1 is down
#
$ ip link add link eth1 up type vlan id 1000
RTNETLINK answers: Network is down

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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-27 02:43:40 -08:00
..
9p 9p: fix p9_client_destroy unconditional calling v9fs_put_trans 2010-02-08 18:18:34 -06:00
802 sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code 2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
8021q percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net 2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
appletalk net: appletalk: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:09 -08:00
atm net: atm: use seq_list_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 12:31:10 -08:00
ax25 net: ax25: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:09 -08:00
bluetooth net: use netdev_mc_count and netdev_mc_empty when appropriate 2010-02-12 11:38:58 -08:00
bridge netfilter: ebtables: mark: add CONFIG_COMPAT support 2010-02-16 17:27:20 +01:00
can can: deny filterlist access on non-CAN interfaces 2010-02-02 07:21:34 -08:00
core rtnetlink: support specifying device flags on device creation 2010-02-27 02:43:40 -08:00
dcb const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
dccp percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net 2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
decnet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
dsa netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
econet net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
ethernet llc: use dev_hard_header 2009-12-26 20:38:23 -08:00
ieee802154 net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2010-02-26 09:31:09 -08:00
ipv6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2010-02-26 09:31:09 -08:00
ipx net: ipx: use seq_list_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 12:31:10 -08:00
irda const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
iucv const: constify remaining dev_pm_ops 2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
key xfrm: SP lookups signature with mark 2010-02-22 16:21:12 -08:00
lapb net: remove NET_RX_BAD and NET_RX_CN* defines 2009-07-05 19:15:35 -07:00
llc llc: fix SAP reference counting w.r.t. socket handling 2009-12-26 20:47:23 -08:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-27 02:05:54 -08:00
netfilter Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2010-02-26 09:31:09 -08:00
netlabel net: remove INIT_RCU_HEAD() usage 2010-02-17 00:03:27 -08:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-03 19:38:22 -08:00
netrom net: netrom: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:08 -08:00
packet af_packet: do not accept mc address smaller then dev->addr_len in packet_mc_add() 2010-02-26 04:18:34 -08:00
phonet net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
rds net/rds: remove uses of NIPQUAD, use %pI4 2010-02-03 20:16:48 -08:00
rfkill net/rfkill/core.c: work around gcc-4.0.2 silliness 2009-12-07 16:51:23 -05:00
rose net: rose: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:08 -08:00
rxrpc net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
sched Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-09 11:44:44 -08:00
sctp net: remove INIT_RCU_HEAD() usage 2010-02-17 00:03:27 -08:00
sunrpc net: Fix first line of kernel-doc for a few functions 2010-02-14 22:35:47 -08:00
tipc tipc: Clean up configuration file 2010-01-19 14:23:57 -08:00
unix AF_UNIX: update locking comment 2010-02-18 14:12:06 -08:00
wanrouter headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
wimax const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
x25 X25: Dont let x25_bind use addresses containing characters 2010-02-15 21:49:52 -08:00
xfrm xfrm: clone mark when cloning policy 2010-02-23 15:09:53 -08:00
compat.c net: use compat helper functions in compat_sys_recvmmsg 2009-12-11 15:07:57 -08:00
Kconfig net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks 2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Makefile net: remove redundant sched/ in net/Makefile 2009-07-12 20:11:14 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED 2009-12-17 10:51:40 -05:00
sysctl_net.c net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
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