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/*
* netlink-private/route/link/api.h Link Modules API
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2.1
* of the License.
*
* Copyright (c) 2003-2013 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
*/
#ifndef NETLINK_LINK_API_H_
#define NETLINK_LINK_API_H_
#include <netlink/netlink.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/**
* @ingroup link_api
*
* Available operations to modules implementing a link info type.
*/
struct rtnl_link_info_ops
{
/** Name of link info type, must match name on kernel side */
char * io_name;
/** Reference count, DO NOT MODIFY */
int io_refcnt;
/** Called to assign an info type to a link.
* Has to allocate enough resources to hold attributes. Can
* use link->l_info to store a pointer. */
int (*io_alloc)(struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called to parse the link info attribute.
* Must parse the attribute and assign all values to the link.
*/
int (*io_parse)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nlattr *,
struct nlattr *);
/** Called when the link object is dumped.
* Must dump the info type specific attributes. */
void (*io_dump[NL_DUMP_MAX+1])(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nl_dump_params *);
/** Called when a link object is cloned.
* Must clone all info type specific attributes. */
int (*io_clone)(struct rtnl_link *, struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called when construction a link netlink message.
* Must append all info type specific attributes to the message. */
int (*io_put_attrs)(struct nl_msg *, struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called to release all resources previously allocated
* in either io_alloc() or io_parse(). */
void (*io_free)(struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called to compare link info parameters between two links. */
int (*io_compare)(struct rtnl_link *, struct rtnl_link *,
int flags);
struct nl_list_head io_list;
};
extern struct rtnl_link_info_ops *rtnl_link_info_ops_lookup(const char *);
extern void rtnl_link_info_ops_put(struct rtnl_link_info_ops *);
extern int rtnl_link_register_info(struct rtnl_link_info_ops *);
extern int rtnl_link_unregister_info(struct rtnl_link_info_ops *);
/**
* @ingroup link_api
*
* Available operations to modules implementing a link address family.
*/
struct rtnl_link_af_ops
{
/** The address family this operations set implements */
const unsigned int ao_family;
/** Number of users of this operations, DO NOT MODIFY. */
int ao_refcnt;
/** Validation policy for IFLA_PROTINFO attribute. This pointer
* can be set to a nla_policy structure describing the minimal
* requirements the attribute must meet. Failure of meeting these
* requirements will result in a parsing error. */
const struct nla_policy *ao_protinfo_policy;
/** Called after address family has been assigned to link. Must
* allocate data buffer to hold address family specific data and
* store it in link->l_af_data. */
void * (*ao_alloc)(struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called when the link is cloned, must allocate a clone of the
* address family specific buffer and return it. */
void * (*ao_clone)(struct rtnl_link *, void *);
/** Called when the link gets freed. Must free all allocated data */
void (*ao_free)(struct rtnl_link *, void *);
/** Called if a IFLA_PROTINFO attribute needs to be parsed. Typically
* stores the parsed data in the address family specific buffer. */
int (*ao_parse_protinfo)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nlattr *, void *);
/** Called if a IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute needs to be parsed. Typically
* stores the parsed data in the address family specific buffer. */
int (*ao_parse_af)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nlattr *, void *);
/** Called if a link message is sent to the kernel. Must append the
* link address family specific attributes to the message. */
int (*ao_fill_af)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nl_msg *msg, void *);
/** Called if the full IFLA_AF_SPEC data needs to be parsed. Typically
* stores the parsed data in the address family specific buffer. */
int (*ao_parse_af_full)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nlattr *, void *);
/** Called for GETLINK message to the kernel. Used to append
* link address family specific attributes to the request message. */
int (*ao_get_af)(struct nl_msg *msg,
uint32_t *ext_filter_mask);
/** Dump address family specific link attributes */
void (*ao_dump[NL_DUMP_MAX+1])(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nl_dump_params *,
void *);
/** Comparison function
*
* Will be called when two links are compared for their af data. It
* takes two link objects in question, an object specific bitmask
* defining which attributes should be compared and flags to control
* the behaviour
*
* The function must return a bitmask with the relevant bit set for
* each attribute that mismatches
*/
int (*ao_compare)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct rtnl_link *, int, uint32_t, int);
/* RTM_NEWLINK override
*
* Called if a change link request is set to the kernel. If this returns
* anything other than zero, RTM_NEWLINK will be overriden with
* RTM_SETLINK when rtnl_link_build_change_request() is called.
*/
int (*ao_override_rtm)(struct rtnl_link *);
/** Called if a link message is sent to the kernel. Must append the
* link protocol specific attributes to the message. (IFLA_PROTINFO) */
int (*ao_fill_pi)(struct rtnl_link *,
struct nl_msg *msg, void *);
/** PROTINFO type
*
* Called if a link message is sent to the kernel. If this is set,
* the default IFLA_PROTINFO is bitmasked with what is specified
* here. (eg. NLA_F_NESTED)
*/
const int ao_fill_pi_flags;
/** IFLA_AF_SPEC nesting override
*
* Called if a link message is sent to the kernel. If this is set,
* the AF specific nest is not created. Instead, AF specific attributes
* are nested directly in the IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute.
*/
const int ao_fill_af_no_nest;
};
extern struct rtnl_link_af_ops *rtnl_link_af_ops_lookup(unsigned int);
extern void rtnl_link_af_ops_put(struct rtnl_link_af_ops *);
extern void * rtnl_link_af_alloc(struct rtnl_link *,
const struct rtnl_link_af_ops *);
extern void * rtnl_link_af_data(const struct rtnl_link *,
const struct rtnl_link_af_ops *);
extern int rtnl_link_af_register(struct rtnl_link_af_ops *);
extern int rtnl_link_af_unregister(struct rtnl_link_af_ops *);
extern int rtnl_link_af_data_compare(struct rtnl_link *a,
struct rtnl_link *b,
int family);
extern int rtnl_link_info_data_compare(struct rtnl_link *a,
struct rtnl_link *b,
int flags);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif