Make it possible to register different factories for the same setting
type, and add a match_connection() method to let each factory decide
if it's capable of handling a connection.
This will be used to decide whether a PPPoE connection must be handled
through the legacy Ethernet factory or through the new PPP factory.
The simple link-types/setting-types mechanism doesn't really cut it
because for the bluetooth NAP connection.type is "bluetooth", but
it shall be primarily handled by the bridge factory.
It's internal API that allows for a basic matching of the factory.
It is however not sophisticated enough for the full complexity.
Make it as internal API only.
We'll use this to let the devices know they can retry autoactivation
because some component became available without actually having any
data that would be useful for that device.
Adjust the comment.
On some architectures, it seems we don't properly expose
the symbol of these static variables from NetworkManager
binary.
Just avoid that and don't instead use a static array
inside the device plugin itself.
While at it, make the arrays all const, which possibly allows
the linker to put those symbols in the read-only section.
Internal device types are a static thing. Let's not do a
constructor function to register the device factory.
This gets rid of all attribute((constructor)) functions inside
NetworkManager core. That is desired, because we don't want to
run code before main(). For example, at that point logging is
not yet initialized, but with code that runs before main() it
is hard to ensure that we don't log anything yet.
An interface would make sense to allow the actual device-factory to inherit
from another type.
However, glib interfaces make code much harder to follow and less
efficient. The device factory shall be a very simple type with meta data
about supported device types and the ability to create device instances.
There is no need to make this an interface implementation, instead just
let the factories inherit from NM_TYPE_DEVICE_FACTORY directly.
VLAN and MACVLAN devices consider an ethernet.mac-address setting
to find the parent device. This setting shall be the permanent MAC
address of the device, not the current.
A GObject interface, like a class, has two different C types
associated with it; the type of the "class" struct (eg, GObjectClass,
GFileIface), and the type of instances of that class/interface (eg,
GObject, GFile).
NetworkManager was doing this wrong though, and using the same C type
to point to both the interface's class struct and to instances of the
interface. This ends up not actually breaking anything, since for
interface types, the instance type is a non-dereferenceable dummy type
anyway. But it's wrong, since if, eg, NMDeviceFactory is a struct type
containing members "start", "device_added", etc, then you should not
be using an NMDeviceFactory* to point to an object that does not
contain those members.
Fix this by splitting NMDeviceFactory into NMDeviceFactoryInterface
and NMDeviceFactory; by splitting NMConnectionProvider into
NMConnectionProviderInterface and NMConnectionProvider; and by
splitting NMSettingsPlugin into NMSettingsPluginInterface and
NMSettingsPlugin; and then use the right types in the right places.
As a bonus, this also lets us now use G_DEFINE_INTERFACE.
Future patches will create devices long before they are backed by
kernel resources, so we need to split NMDevice object creation from
actual setup based on the backing resources.
This patch combines the NMDeviceFactory's new_link() and
create_virtual_device_for_connection() class methods into a single
create_device() method that simply creates an unrealized NMDevice
object; this method is not expected to fail unless the device is
supposed to be ignored. This also means that the NMDevice
'platform-device' property is removed, because a platform link
object may not be available at NMDevice object creation time.
After the device is created, it is then "realized" at some later
time from a platform link (for existing/hardware devices via the
realize() method) or from an NMConnection (for newly created software
devices via the create_and_realize() NMDeviceClass methods).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737458
Rather than randomly including one or more of <glib.h>,
<glib-object.h>, and <gio/gio.h> everywhere (and forgetting to include
"nm-glib-compat.h" most of the time), rename nm-glib-compat.h to
nm-glib.h, include <gio/gio.h> from there, and then change all .c
files in NM to include "nm-glib.h" rather than including the glib
headers directly.
(Public headers files still have to include the real glib headers,
since nm-glib.h isn't installed...)
Also, remove glib includes from header files that are already
including a base object header file (which must itself already include
the glib headers).
Instead of hacky stuff in the Manager, let plugins themselves indicate
which links should be ignored (because they are really child links that
are controlled by a different device that the plugin handles).
Instead of having a bunch of logic in the Manager for determining the
VLAN and Infiniband virtual interface names, move the type-specific
logic into the plugins themselves.
Instead of looping over all plugins and asking each plugin whether it
can handle a link or a connection, have them advertise the link and
connection types they support, and use that when creating new devices.
In preparation for internal device types exposing factories too, it's
easier to have the device type that the factory creates be returned
by the factory object instead of the plugin, because internal device
types don't have plugins.
This requires that we create the factory objects earlier, which
further requires that any operations that trigger signals must be
moved out of each factory's construction path to a separate start()
function.
Previously, src/nm-ip4-config.h, libnm/nm-ip4-config.h, and
libnm-glib/nm-ip4-config.h all used "NM_IP4_CONFIG_H" as an include
guard, which meant that nm-test-utils.h could not tell which of them
was being included (and so, eg, if you tried to include
nm-ip4-config.h in a libnm test, it would fail to compile because
nm-test-utils.h was referring to symbols in src/nm-ip4-config.h).
Fix this by changing the include guards in the non-API-stable parts of
the tree:
- libnm-glib/nm-ip4-config.h remains NM_IP4_CONFIG_H
- libnm/nm-ip4-config.h now uses __NM_IP4_CONFIG_H__
- src/nm-ip4-config.h now uses __NETWORKMANAGER_IP4_CONFIG_H__
And likewise for all other headers.
The two non-"nm"-prefixed headers, libnm/NetworkManager.h and
src/NetworkManagerUtils.h are now __NETWORKMANAGER_H__ and
__NETWORKMANAGER_UTILS_H__ respectively, which, while not entirely
consistent with the general scheme, do still mostly make sense in
isolation.
"NetworkManager.h"'s name (and non-standard capitalization) suggest
that it's some sort of high-level super-important header, but it's
really just low-level D-Bus stuff. Rename it to "nm-dbus-interface.h"
and likewise "NetworkManagerVPN.h" to "nm-vpn-dbus-interface.h"
Clean up some of the cross-includes between headers (which made it so
that, eg, if you included NetworkManagerUtils.h in a test program, you
would need to build the test with -I$(top_srcdir)/src/platform, and if
you included nm-device.h you'd need $(POLKIT_CFLAGS)) by moving all
GObject struct definitions for src/ and src/settings/ into nm-types.h
(which already existed to solve the NMDevice/NMActRequest circular
references).
Update various .c files to explicitly include the headers they used to
get implicitly, and remove some now-unnecessary -I options from
Makefiles.
Instead of having a GObject property and a factory function to get
the plugin's device type, just use the factory function, since it
always has to be around.
In preparation for making WWAN and Bluetooth plugins, rework
the device plugin interface to meet those plugins' needs and
port WiMAX over in the process.
Rather than passing UDI, ifname, and driver name to the device
constructors as separate arguments, just pass the NMPlatformLink
instead and let it parse them out.
Virtual types still take UDI and ifname separately, since we create
fake NMDevices for them for autoactivating connections. That's weird
in other ways too though, so perhaps this should be revisted.
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.
