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ethtool: provide link state with LINKSTATE_GET request

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Implement LINKSTATE_GET netlink request to get link state information.

At the moment, only link up flag as provided by ETHTOOL_GLINK ioctl command
is returned.

LINKSTATE_GET request can be used with NLM_F_DUMP (without device
identification) to request the information for all devices in current
network namespace providing the data.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Michal Kubecek
2019-12-27 15:56:23 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 1b1b1847c8
commit 3d2b847fb9
9 changed files with 146 additions and 6 deletions
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Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
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@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ Userspace to kernel:
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKINFO_SET`` set link settings
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKMODES_GET`` get link modes info
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKMODES_SET`` set link modes info
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKSTATE_GET`` get link state
===================================== ================================
Kernel to userspace:
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ Kernel to userspace:
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKINFO_NTF`` link settings notification
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKMODES_GET_REPLY`` link modes info
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKMODES_NTF`` link modes notification
``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKSTATE_GET_REPLY`` link state info
===================================== ================================
``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device
@@ -392,6 +394,35 @@ is supposed to allow requesting changes without knowing what exactly kernel
supports.
LINKSTATE_GET
=============
Requests link state information. At the moment, only link up/down flag (as
provided by ``ETHTOOL_GLINK`` ioctl command) is provided but some future
extensions are planned (e.g. link down reason). This request does not have any
attributes.
Request contents:
==================================== ====== ==========================
``ETHTOOL_A_LINKSTATE_HEADER`` nested request header
==================================== ====== ==========================
Kernel response contents:
==================================== ====== ==========================
``ETHTOOL_A_LINKSTATE_HEADER`` nested reply header
``ETHTOOL_A_LINKSTATE_LINK`` bool link state (up/down)
==================================== ====== ==========================
For most NIC drivers, the value of ``ETHTOOL_A_LINKSTATE_LINK`` returns
carrier flag provided by ``netif_carrier_ok()`` but there are drivers which
define their own handler.
``LINKSTATE_GET`` allows dump requests (kernel returns reply messages for all
devices supporting the request).
Request translation
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@@ -413,7 +444,7 @@ have their netlink replacement yet.
``ETHTOOL_GMSGLVL`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_SMSGLVL`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_NWAY_RST`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_GLINK`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_GLINK`` ``ETHTOOL_MSG_LINKSTATE_GET``
``ETHTOOL_GEEPROM`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_SEEPROM`` n/a
``ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE`` n/a