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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2013-12-06 09:45:21 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-12-06 16:34:43 -0500
commit479840ffdbe4242e8a25349218c8e0859223aa35 (patch)
treecad6833e9f0b92949c3dc1568b790877e18ffafa /include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
parente6247027e5173c00efb2084d688d06ff835bc3b0 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-479840ffdbe4242e8a25349218c8e0859223aa35.tar.gz
ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32
There is no more space in u8 ifa_flags. So do what davem suffested and add another netlink attr called IFA_FLAGS for carry more flags. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
index 23357ab81a77..8ab0c2cc9b73 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ struct ifaddrmsg {
* 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.
+ *
+ * IFA_FLAGS is a u32 attribute that extends the u8 field ifa_flags.
+ * If present, the value from struct ifaddrmsg will be ignored.
*/
enum {
IFA_UNSPEC,
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ enum {
IFA_ANYCAST,
IFA_CACHEINFO,
IFA_MULTICAST,
+ IFA_FLAGS,
__IFA_MAX,
};