From c1f79426e2df5ef96fe3e76de6c7606d15bf390b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Assmann Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:50:21 +0000 Subject: sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment type Add addr_assign_type to struct net_device and expose it via sysfs. This new attribute has the purpose of giving user-space the ability to distinguish between different assignment types of MAC addresses. For example user-space can treat NICs with randomly generated MAC addresses differently than NICs that have permanent (locally assigned) MAC addresses. For the former udev could write a persistent net rule by matching the device path instead of the MAC address. There's also the case of devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices. In which it is also be beneficial for user-space to be aware of the fact. This patch also introduces a helper function to assist adoption of drivers that generate MAC addresses randomly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index d2b596537d4..af4dfbadf2a 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static ssize_t netdev_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, } NETDEVICE_SHOW(dev_id, fmt_hex); +NETDEVICE_SHOW(addr_assign_type, fmt_dec); NETDEVICE_SHOW(addr_len, fmt_dec); NETDEVICE_SHOW(iflink, fmt_dec); NETDEVICE_SHOW(ifindex, fmt_dec); @@ -295,6 +296,7 @@ static ssize_t show_ifalias(struct device *dev, } static struct device_attribute net_class_attributes[] = { + __ATTR(addr_assign_type, S_IRUGO, show_addr_assign_type, NULL), __ATTR(addr_len, S_IRUGO, show_addr_len, NULL), __ATTR(dev_id, S_IRUGO, show_dev_id, NULL), __ATTR(ifalias, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_ifalias, store_ifalias), -- cgit v1.2.3