tree 6c5080bcfb237f7718dee9dbc91a49b564556d43
parent 7cc76f51508219a74dca835745e4f84393820017
author Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> 1416475747 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1416600089 -0500

tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink api

A new netlink API for tipc that can disable or enable a tipc bearer.

The new API is separated from the old API because of a bug in the
user space client (tipc-config). The problem is that older versions
of tipc-config has a very low receive limit and adding commands to
the legacy genl_opts struct causes the ctrl_getfamily() response
message to grow, subsequently breaking the tool.

The new API utilizes netlink policies for input validation. Where the
top-level netlink attributes are tipc-logical entities, like bearer.
The top level entities then contain nested attributes. In this case
a name, nested link properties and a domain.

Netlink commands implemented in this patch:
TIPC_NL_BEARER_ENABLE
TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE

Netlink logical layout of bearer enable message:
-> bearer
    -> name
    [ -> domain ]
    [
    -> properties
        -> priority
    ]

Netlink logical layout of bearer disable message:
-> bearer
    -> name

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>