rtnl: expose physical switch id for particular device
authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:34:18 +0000 (14:34 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 3 Dec 2014 04:01:21 +0000 (20:01 -0800)
The netdevice represents a port in a switch, it will expose
IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID value via rtnl. Two netdevices with the same value
belong to one physical switch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
net/core/rtnetlink.c

index 36bddc2..623f1a7 100644 (file)
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum {
        IFLA_CARRIER,
        IFLA_PHYS_PORT_ID,
        IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES,
+       IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID,
        __IFLA_MAX
 };
 
Simple merge