History log of /linux-master/include/uapi/linux/if.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# eec517cd 19-Apr-2020 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

net: Add IF_OPER_TESTING

RFC 2863 defines the operational state testing. Add support for this
state, both as a IF_LINK_MODE_ and __LINK_STATE_.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# f362e5fe 20-Jan-2020 Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>

wan/hdlc_x25: make lapb params configurable

This enables you to configure mode (DTE/DCE), Modulo, Window, T1, T2, N2 via
sethdlc (which needs to be patched as well).

Signed-off-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 36fbf1e5 30-Sep-2019 Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

net: rtnetlink: add linkprop commands to add and delete alternative ifnames

Add two commands to add and delete list of link properties. Implement
the first property type along - alternative ifnames.
Each net device can have multiple alternative names.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# e2be04c7 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 2618be7d 20-Feb-2017 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>

uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors

Include <sys/socket.h> (guarded by ifndef __KERNEL__) to fix
the following linux/if.h userspace compilation errors:

/usr/include/linux/if.h:234:19: error: field 'ifru_addr' has incomplete type
struct sockaddr ifru_addr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:235:19: error: field 'ifru_dstaddr' has incomplete type
struct sockaddr ifru_dstaddr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:236:19: error: field 'ifru_broadaddr' has incomplete type
struct sockaddr ifru_broadaddr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:237:19: error: field 'ifru_netmask' has incomplete type
struct sockaddr ifru_netmask;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:238:20: error: field 'ifru_hwaddr' has incomplete type
struct sockaddr ifru_hwaddr;

This also fixes userspace compilation of the following uapi headers:
linux/atmbr2684.h
linux/gsmmux.h
linux/if_arp.h
linux/if_bonding.h
linux/if_frad.h
linux/if_pppox.h
linux/if_tunnel.h
linux/netdevice.h
linux/route.h
linux/wireless.h

As no uapi header provides a definition of struct sockaddr, inclusion
of <sys/socket.h> seems to be the most conservative and the only safe
fix available.

All current users of <linux/if.h> are very likely to be including
<sys/socket.h> already because the latter is the sole provider
of struct sockaddr definition in libc, so adding a uapi header
with a definition of struct sockaddr would create a potential
conflict with <sys/socket.h>.

Replacing struct sockaddr in the definition of struct ifreq with
a different type would create a potential incompatibility with current
users of struct ifreq who might rely on ifru_addr et al members being
of type struct sockaddr.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# efc45154 03-Dec-2016 Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>

uapi glibc compat: fix outer guard of net device flags enum

Fix a wrong condition preventing the higher net device flags
IFF_LOWER_UP etc to be defined if net/if.h is included before
linux/if.h.

The comment makes it clear the intention was to allow partial
definition with either parts.

This fixes compilation of userspace programs trying to use
IFF_LOWER_UP, IFF_DORMANT or IFF_ECHO.

Fixes: 4a91cb61bb99 ("uapi glibc compat: fix compile errors when glibc net/if.h included before linux/if.h")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 4a91cb61 24-Apr-2016 Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>

uapi glibc compat: fix compile errors when glibc net/if.h included before linux/if.h

glibc's net/if.h contains copies of definitions from linux/if.h and these
conflict and cause build failures if both files are included by application
source code. Changes in uapi headers, which fixed header file dependencies to
include linux/if.h when it was needed, e.g. commit 1ffad83d, made the
net/if.h and linux/if.h incompatibilities visible as build failures for
userspace applications like iproute2 and xtables-addons.

This patch fixes compile errors when glibc net/if.h is included before
linux/if.h:

./linux/if.h:99:21: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_NOARP’
./linux/if.h:98:23: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_RUNNING’
./linux/if.h:97:26: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_NOTRAILERS’
./linux/if.h:96:27: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_POINTOPOINT’
./linux/if.h:95:24: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_LOOPBACK’
./linux/if.h:94:21: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_DEBUG’
./linux/if.h:93:25: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_BROADCAST’
./linux/if.h:92:19: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_UP’
./linux/if.h:252:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifconf’
./linux/if.h:203:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifreq’
./linux/if.h:169:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifmap’
./linux/if.h:107:23: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_DYNAMIC’
./linux/if.h:106:25: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_AUTOMEDIA’
./linux/if.h:105:23: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_PORTSEL’
./linux/if.h:104:25: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_MULTICAST’
./linux/if.h:103:21: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_SLAVE’
./linux/if.h:102:22: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_MASTER’
./linux/if.h:101:24: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_ALLMULTI’
./linux/if.h:100:23: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘IFF_PROMISC’

The cases where linux/if.h is included before net/if.h need a similar fix in
the glibc side, or the order of include files can be changed userspace
code as a workaround.

This change was tested in x86 userspace on Debian unstable with
scripts/headers_compile_test.sh:

$ make headers_install && \
cd usr/include && ../../scripts/headers_compile_test.sh -l -k
...
cc -Wall -c -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc/i586-linux-gnu/5/include -I /usr/lib/gcc/i586-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed -I . -I /home/mcfrisk/src/linux-2.6/usr/headers_compile_test_include.2uX2zH -I /home/mcfrisk/src/linux-2.6/usr/headers_compile_test_include.2uX2zH/i586-linux-gnu -o /dev/null ./linux/if.h_libc_before_kernel.h
PASSED libc before kernel test: ./linux/if.h

Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Reported-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <mail@waldemar-brodkorb.de>
Cc: Gabriel Laskar <gabriel@lse.epita.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 93e68cd6 16-Mar-2016 Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com>

net: fix a comment typo

Fix a comment typo.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 7aa98047 25-Feb-2014 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>

net: move net_device priv_flags out from UAPI

These are private to userspace, and they're unstable
anyway and can be shuffled at will (see 080e4130b1fb)
so any userspace application relying on them is on crack.

Test compiled with allyesconfig.

mcgrof@drvbp1 /pub/mem/mcgrof/net-next (git::master)$ make allyesconfig
mcgrof@drvbp1 /pub/mem/mcgrof/net-next (git::master)$ time make -j 20
...
BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage
Setup is 16992 bytes (padded to 17408 bytes).
System is 56153 kB
CRC 721d2751
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
real 19m35.744s
user 280m37.984s
sys 27m54.104s

Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 589f5816 25-Feb-2014 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>

net: kdoc struct net_device flags and priv_flags

We have documentation for these flags but they're scattered
all over the place. #defines don't allow documentation to be
written easily so to help to start bringing some documentation
together use the enums kdoc practice but keep the defines to
allow userspace to be able to #ifdef them.

I've verified the same values are assigned before and after
with a simple userspace test program [0] and checksumming the
output.

[0] http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/kdoc/netdev_flags/

mcgrof@gnat ~/tmp $ ./check-flags | sha1sum
0ec5b6b1840aa3bb9ce464e61c564820871c92c3 -

Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# a6cc0cfa 06-Nov-2013 John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>

net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices

Add a operations structure that allows a network interface to export
the fact that it supports package forwarding in hardware between
physical interfaces and other mac layer devices assigned to it (such
as macvlans). This operaions structure can be used by virtual mac
devices to bypass software switching so that forwarding can be done
in hardware more efficiently.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 607ca46e 13-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>