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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-10-13 13:46:48 +0400
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-10-13 13:46:48 +0400
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UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
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+#ifndef __LINUX_IF_ADDR_H
+#define __LINUX_IF_ADDR_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/netlink.h>
+
+struct ifaddrmsg {
+ __u8 ifa_family;
+ __u8 ifa_prefixlen; /* The prefix length */
+ __u8 ifa_flags; /* Flags */
+ __u8 ifa_scope; /* Address scope */
+ __u32 ifa_index; /* Link index */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Important comment:
+ * IFA_ADDRESS is prefix address, rather than local interface address.
+ * It makes no difference for normally configured broadcast interfaces,
+ * but for point-to-point IFA_ADDRESS is DESTINATION address,
+ * local address is supplied in IFA_LOCAL attribute.
+ */
+enum {
+ IFA_UNSPEC,
+ IFA_ADDRESS,
+ IFA_LOCAL,
+ IFA_LABEL,
+ IFA_BROADCAST,
+ IFA_ANYCAST,
+ IFA_CACHEINFO,
+ IFA_MULTICAST,
+ __IFA_MAX,
+};
+
+#define IFA_MAX (__IFA_MAX - 1)
+
+/* ifa_flags */
+#define IFA_F_SECONDARY 0x01
+#define IFA_F_TEMPORARY IFA_F_SECONDARY
+
+#define IFA_F_NODAD 0x02
+#define IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC 0x04
+#define IFA_F_DADFAILED 0x08
+#define IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS 0x10
+#define IFA_F_DEPRECATED 0x20
+#define IFA_F_TENTATIVE 0x40
+#define IFA_F_PERMANENT 0x80
+
+struct ifa_cacheinfo {
+ __u32 ifa_prefered;
+ __u32 ifa_valid;
+ __u32 cstamp; /* created timestamp, hundredths of seconds */
+ __u32 tstamp; /* updated timestamp, hundredths of seconds */
+};
+
+/* backwards compatibility for userspace */
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#define IFA_RTA(r) ((struct rtattr*)(((char*)(r)) + NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct ifaddrmsg))))
+#define IFA_PAYLOAD(n) NLMSG_PAYLOAD(n,sizeof(struct ifaddrmsg))
+#endif
+
+#endif