Marcel Holtmann
384912ed19
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices ...
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.
To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.
# cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
DEVTYPE=wlan
INTERFACE=wlan0
IFINDEX=5
This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.
The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
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netfilter: xtables: mark initial tables constant
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netfilter: xtables: mark initial tables constant
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netfilter: xtables: mark initial tables constant
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net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
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uio: mark uio.h functions __KERNEL__ only
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lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style.
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style.
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style.
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style.
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
