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Johannes Berg authored
In some cases, for example in the upcoming WWAN framework changes, there's no natural "parent netdev", so sometimes dummy netdevs are created or similar. IFLA_PARENT_DEV_NAME is a new attribute intended to contain a device (sysfs, struct device) name that can be used instead when creating a new netdev, if the rtnetlink family implements it. As suggested by Parav Pandit, we also introduce IFLA_PARENT_DEV_BUS_NAME attribute in order to uniquely identify a device on the system (with bus/name pair). ip-link(8) support for the generic parent device attributes will help us avoid code duplication, so no other link type will require a custom code to handle the parent name attribute. E.g. the WWAN interface creation command will looks like this: $ ip link add wwan0-1 parent-dev wwan0 type wwan channel-id 1 So, some future subsystem (or driver) FOO will have an interface creation command that looks like this: $ ip link add foo1-3 parent-dev foo1 type foo bar-id 3 baz-type Y Below is an example of dumping link info of a random device with these new attributes: $ ip --details link show wlp0s20f3 4: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 ... parent_bus pci parent_dev 0000:00:14.3 Co-developed-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org> Suggested-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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