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In some cases, for example in the upcoming WWAN framework changes,
there's no natural "parent netdev", so sometimes dummy netdevs are
created or similar. IFLA_PARENT_DEV_NAME is a new attribute intended to
contain a device (sysfs, struct device) name that can be used instead
when creating a new netdev, if the rtnetlink family implements it.
As suggested by Parav Pandit, we also introduce IFLA_PARENT_DEV_BUS_NAME
attribute in order to uniquely identify a device on the system (with
bus/name pair).
ip-link(8) support for the generic parent device attributes will help
us avoid code duplication, so no other link type will require a custom
code to handle the parent name attribute. E.g. the WWAN interface
creation command will looks like this:
$ ip link add wwan0-1 parent-dev wwan0 type wwan channel-id 1
So, some future subsystem (or driver) FOO will have an interface
creation command that looks like this:
$ ip link add foo1-3 parent-dev foo1 type foo bar-id 3 baz-type Y
Below is an example of dumping link info of a random device with these
new attributes:
$ ip --details link show wlp0s20f3
4: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
...
parent_bus pci parent_dev 0000:00:14.3
Co-developed-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.