iplink: add support for parent device

Add support for specifying a parent device (struct device) by its name
during the link creation and printing parent name in the links list.
This option will be used to create WWAN links and possibly by other
device classes that do not have a "natural parent netdev".

Add the parent device bus name printing for links list info
completeness. But do not add a corresponding command line argument, as
we do not have a use case for this attribute.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Sergey Ryazanov 2021-06-23 02:52:55 +03:00 committed by David Ahern
parent 083e2706e1
commit 362da458a4
2 changed files with 19 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -1242,6 +1242,20 @@ int print_linkinfo(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]),
b1, sizeof(b1)));
}
if (tb[IFLA_PARENT_DEV_BUS_NAME]) {
print_string(PRINT_ANY,
"parentbus",
"parentbus %s ",
rta_getattr_str(tb[IFLA_PARENT_DEV_BUS_NAME]));
}
if (tb[IFLA_PARENT_DEV_NAME]) {
print_string(PRINT_ANY,
"parentdev",
"parentdev %s ",
rta_getattr_str(tb[IFLA_PARENT_DEV_NAME]));
}
}
if ((do_link || show_details) && tb[IFLA_IFALIAS]) {

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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ void iplink_usage(void)
{
if (iplink_have_newlink()) {
fprintf(stderr,
"Usage: ip link add [link DEV] [ name ] NAME\n"
"Usage: ip link add [link DEV | parentdev NAME] [ name ] NAME\n"
" [ txqueuelen PACKETS ]\n"
" [ address LLADDR ]\n"
" [ broadcast LLADDR ]\n"
@ -938,6 +938,10 @@ int iplink_parse(int argc, char **argv, struct iplink_req *req, char **type)
*argv);
addattr32(&req->n, sizeof(*req),
IFLA_GSO_MAX_SEGS, max_segs);
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "parentdev") == 0) {
NEXT_ARG();
addattr_l(&req->n, sizeof(*req), IFLA_PARENT_DEV_NAME,
*argv, strlen(*argv) + 1);
} else {
if (matches(*argv, "help") == 0)
usage();