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authorAnuradha Karuppiah <anuradhak@cumulusnetworks.com>2015-07-14 13:43:19 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-07-15 21:39:40 -0700
commitd746d707a8b1421a4ba46b497cb5d59e20161645 (patch)
tree12d68963f6b74053f2d86fe50baef6233791a67f /net/core/net-sysfs.c
parent07e6a97da1eba064bb35cfd5c121e90865393a60 (diff)
downloadlinux-d746d707a8b1421a4ba46b497cb5d59e20161645.tar.bz2
net core: Add protodown support.
This patch introduces the proto_down flag that can be used by user space applications to notify switch drivers that errors have been detected on the device. The switch driver can react to protodown notification by doing a phys down on the associated switch port. Signed-off-by: Anuradha Karuppiah <anuradhak@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/net-sysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 18b34d771ed4..194c1d03b2b3 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -404,6 +404,19 @@ static ssize_t group_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
NETDEVICE_SHOW(group, fmt_dec);
static DEVICE_ATTR(netdev_group, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, group_show, group_store);
+static int change_proto_down(struct net_device *dev, unsigned long proto_down)
+{
+ return dev_change_proto_down(dev, (bool) proto_down);
+}
+
+static ssize_t proto_down_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ return netdev_store(dev, attr, buf, len, change_proto_down);
+}
+NETDEVICE_SHOW_RW(proto_down, fmt_dec);
+
static ssize_t phys_port_id_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
@@ -501,6 +514,7 @@ static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_phys_port_id.attr,
&dev_attr_phys_port_name.attr,
&dev_attr_phys_switch_id.attr,
+ &dev_attr_proto_down.attr,
NULL,
};
ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(net_class);