Add a "parent" field to NMPlatformLink, giving the parent device
ifindex for devices that have a parent.
Make nm_platform_link_get_all() sort the links before returning them,
so that masters appear after all of their slaves, and parent devices
appear before their children.
Remove the second call to nm_platform_query_devices() from NMManager
since it is now guaranteed that an NMDeviceVLAN's parent NMDevice will
have been created before the NMDeviceVLAN.
Merge the net-subsystem-monitoring functionality of NMUdevManager into
NMLinuxPlatform (and kill NMUdevManager). NMLinuxPlatform now only
emits link-added signals after udev processes the device, and uses
udev attributes to further identify the device. NMManager now
identifies devices solely based on the NMLinkType provided by the
platform.
Add a new libnm-glib method to get the type description for a device,
and use it in nmcli. For most types, the type description is based on
the class name, but for NMDeviceGeneric, it comes from the
:type-description property.
Extend nm-platform to support IPv4 and IPv6 route management.
Route features:
* Retrieve the list of IPv4 and IPv6 routes
* Add/delete/lookup IPv4 and IPv6 routes
* Flush all non-linklocal routes
Extend nm-platform to support IPv4 and IPv6 address management.
Address features:
* Retrieve the list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
* Add/delete/lookup IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
* Flush all non-linklocal addresses
Create the new nm-platform framework and implement link (or interface)
management. The nm-platform serves as the point of contact between
the rest of NetworkManager and the operating system.
There are two backends for nm-platform:
* NMFakePlatform: Fake kernel backend for testing purposes
* NMLinuxPlatform: Linux kernel backend for actual use
A comprehensive testsuite is included and will be extended with new
feature additions. To enable the Linux part of the testsuite, use
--enable-tests=root configure options and run 'make check' as root.
Use --enable-code-coverage for code coverage support.
./autogen.sh --enable-tests=root --enable-code-coverage
make
make -C src/platform check-code-coverage
Link features:
* Retrieve the list of links
* Translate between indexes and names
* Discover device type
* Add/remove dummy interfaces (for testing)
Thanks to Thomas Graf for helping with libnl3 synchronization issues.