Most nm_platform_*() functions operate on the platform
singleton nm_platform_get(). That made sense because the
NMPlatform instance was mainly to hook fake platform for
testing.
While the implicit argument saved some typing, I think explicit is
better. Especially, because NMPlatform could become a more usable
object then just a hook for testing.
With this change, NMPlatform instances can be used individually, not
only as a singleton instance.
Before this change, the constructor of NMLinuxPlatform could not
call any nm_platform_*() functions because the singleton was not
yet initialized. We could only instantiate an incomplete instance,
register it via nm_platform_setup(), and then complete initialization
via singleton->setup().
With this change, we can create and fully initialize NMPlatform instances
before/without setting them up them as singleton.
Also, currently there is no clear distinction between functions
that operate on the NMPlatform instance, and functions that can
be used stand-alone (e.g. nm_platform_ip4_address_to_string()).
The latter can not be mocked for testing. With this change, the
distinction becomes obvious. That is also useful because it becomes
clearer which functions make use of the platform cache and which not.
Inside nm-linux-platform.c, continue the pattern that the
self instance is named @platform. That makes sense because
its type is NMPlatform, and not NMLinuxPlatform what we
would expect from a paramter named @self.
This is a major diff that causes some pain when rebasing. Try
to rebase to the parent commit of this commit as a first step.
Then rebase on top of this commit using merge-strategy "ours".
We currently don't manage a veth inside a container despite we should because
it's an externally configured software interface and thus waits for IFF_UP.
Given veths are prevented from being managed outside of a container by an udev
rule anyway it's safe to lift the external IFF_UP requirement for them.
We only want to treat a veth device as ethernet if (a) NM is running
inside a container, and (b) the veth in question is the "inside" end
of the veth, not the outside. Unfortunately, we don't have good
heuristics for this at the moment, so just ignore veths for now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731014
Remove all remaining GParamSpec name and blurb strings (and fix
indentation while we're there), and add G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS to all
paramspecs that were lacking it.
NMDeviceGre and NMDeviceMacvlan didn't deal with the possibility that
the virtual device might be created before its parent's NMDevice is
created. Mostly fix this by having them put off the call to
nm_manager_get_device_by_ifindex() until someone actually requests the
device.
This is not perfect; if someone listening to notify::parent checks
right away, they may find that the parent property is still NULL, and
notify::parent will not be emitted again when it gets filled in. But
it's better than what's there now, when parent would remain NULL
forever in this case.
NMDeviceVeth did not have this problem, but it did have another
possible problem because it wasn't cleaning up its weak references
properly.
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.
