Link Info API

Collaboration diagram for Link Info API:

Modules
	VLAN

Data Structures
struct	rtnl_link_info_ops
	Link info operations. More...

Functions
struct rtnl_link_info_ops *	rtnl_link_info_ops_lookup (const char *name)
int	rtnl_link_register_info (struct rtnl_link_info_ops *ops)
int	rtnl_link_unregister_info (struct rtnl_link_info_ops *ops)

Detailed Description

1) Registering/Unregistering a new link info type

static struct rtnl_link_info_ops vlan_info_ops = {
    .io_name        = "vlan",
    .io_alloc       = vlan_alloc,
    .io_parse       = vlan_parse,
    .io_dump[NL_DUMP_BRIEF] = vlan_dump_brief,
    .io_dump[NL_DUMP_FULL]  = vlan_dump_full,
    .io_free        = vlan_free,
};

static void __init vlan_init(void)
{
    rtnl_link_register_info(&vlan_info_ops);
}

static void __exit vlan_exit(void)
{
    rtnl_link_unregister_info(&vlan_info_ops);
}

Function Documentation

struct rtnl_link_info_ops* rtnl_link_info_ops_lookup

(

const char *

name

)

References rtnl_link_info_ops::io_name, rtnl_link_info_ops::io_next, and NULL.

Referenced by rtnl_link_register_info(), and rtnl_link_set_info_type().

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int rtnl_link_register_info

(

struct rtnl_link_info_ops *

ops

)

References rtnl_link_info_ops::io_name, rtnl_link_info_ops::io_next, NL_DBG, NLE_EXIST, NLE_INVAL, NULL, and rtnl_link_info_ops_lookup().

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int rtnl_link_unregister_info

(

struct rtnl_link_info_ops *

ops

)

References rtnl_link_info_ops::io_name, rtnl_link_info_ops::io_next, rtnl_link_info_ops::io_refcnt, NL_DBG, NLE_BUSY, NLE_OPNOTSUPP, and NULL.