diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-core-internal.h b/libnm-core/nm-core-internal.h
index 00645a7618..33062d74ab 100644
--- a/libnm-core/nm-core-internal.h
+++ b/libnm-core/nm-core-internal.h
@@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ const char *const*nm_setting_gendata_get_all_names (NMSetting *setting,
 
 GVariant *const*nm_setting_gendata_get_all_values (NMSetting *setting);
 
+gboolean nm_setting_gendata_get_uint32 (NMSetting *setting,
+                                        const char *optname,
+                                        guint32 *out_value);
+
+void nm_setting_gendata_set_uint32 (NMSetting *setting,
+                                    const char *optname,
+                                    guint32 value);
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
 guint nm_setting_ethtool_init_features (NMSettingEthtool *setting,
diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-setting.c b/libnm-core/nm-setting.c
index 5a16d5cbe7..bf721301f4 100644
--- a/libnm-core/nm-setting.c
+++ b/libnm-core/nm-setting.c
@@ -2616,6 +2616,39 @@ _nm_setting_gendata_reset_from_hash (NMSetting *setting,
 	return TRUE;
 }
 
+gboolean
+nm_setting_gendata_get_uint32 (NMSetting *setting,
+                               const char *optname,
+                               guint32 *out_value)
+{
+	GVariant *v;
+
+	nm_assert (NM_IS_SETTING (setting));
+	nm_assert (nm_str_not_empty (optname));
+
+	v = nm_setting_gendata_get (setting, optname);
+	if (   v
+	    && g_variant_is_of_type (v, G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT32)) {
+		NM_SET_OUT (out_value, g_variant_get_uint32 (v));
+		return TRUE;
+	}
+	NM_SET_OUT (out_value, 0);
+	return FALSE;
+}
+
+void
+nm_setting_gendata_set_uint32 (NMSetting *setting,
+                               const char *optname,
+                               guint32 value)
+{
+	nm_assert (NM_IS_SETTING (setting));
+	nm_assert (nm_str_not_empty (optname));
+
+	g_hash_table_insert (_nm_setting_gendata_hash (setting, TRUE),
+	                     g_strdup (optname),
+	                     g_variant_ref_sink (g_variant_new_uint32 (value)));
+}
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
 static void