Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 3 authors, 2009-11-24

Re: [PATCH 4/4] macvlan: export macvlan mode through netlink

From: Patrick McHardy <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-24 10:53:32
Also in: bridge, lkml

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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@@ -600,6 +594,18 @@ static int macvlan_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
 		if (!is_valid_ether_addr(nla_data(tb[IFLA_ADDRESS])))
 			return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 	}
+
+	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]) {
+		u32 mode = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]);
+		switch (mode) {
+		case MACVLAN_MODE_PRIVATE:
+		case MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA:
+		case MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE:
+			break;
+		default:
+			return -EINVAL;
EINVAL is quite unspecific. In this case I think EOPNOTSUPP would
be fine and provide more information.
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+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -664,6 +670,13 @@ static int macvlan_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 	vlan->dev      = dev;
 	vlan->port     = port;
 
+	vlan->mode     = MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA;
+	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]) {
+		u32 mode = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]);
+
+		vlan->mode     = mode;
This looks a bit strange, like cut-and-paste without reformatting :)
I'd suggest to simply use "vlan->mode = nla_get_u32(...)".
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+	}
+
 	err = register_netdevice(dev);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
@@ -685,6 +698,39 @@ static void macvlan_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
 		macvlan_port_destroy(port->dev);
 }
 
+static int macvlan_changelink(struct net_device *dev,
+		struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
+{
+	struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
+	if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]) {
+		u32 mode = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]);
+		vlan->mode     = mode;
Same here.
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
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