From e71992889ee289a87f6641cfa40d64a5699bcb53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelianov Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:16:38 -0700 Subject: [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 Acked-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/rtnetlink.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/net/rtnetlink.h') diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h index 3861c05cdf0..8218288ab7e 100644 --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ extern void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); extern int rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); +extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(char *ifname, + const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[]); +extern const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1]; + #define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind) #endif -- cgit v1.2.3 From 881d966b48b035ab3f3aeaae0f3d3f9b584f45b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:56:21 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/rtnetlink.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/net/rtnetlink.h') diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h index 8218288ab7e..793863e09c6 100644 --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern void __rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); extern int rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops); -extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(char *ifname, +extern struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *net, char *ifname, const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, struct nlattr *tb[]); extern const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1]; -- cgit v1.2.3