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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/operstates.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 10 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt b/Documentation/networking/operstates.txt index 1a77a3cfae5..97694572338 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 60f3b6b9060..c4edfe11f1f 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 1868625af25..2ef7a56ba11 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]); |