Note that NMSettingEthtool and NMSettingMatch don't have such
functions either.
We have API
nm_connection_get_setting (NMConnection *, GType)
nm_connection_get_setting_by_name (NMConnection *, const char *)
which can be used generically, meaning: the requested setting type
is an argument to the function. That is generally more useful and
flexible.
Don't add API which duplicates existing functionality and is (arguably)
inferiour. Drop it now. This is an ABI/API break for the current development
cycle where the 1.14.0 API is still unstable. Indeed it's already after
1.14-rc1, which is ugly. But it's also unlikely that somebody already uses
this API/ABI and is badly impacted by this change.
Note that nm_connection_get_setting() and nm_connection_get_setting_by_name()
are slightly inconvenient in C still, because they usually require a cast.
We should fix that by changing the return type to "void *". Such
a change may be possibly any time without breaking API/ABI (almost, it'd
be an API change when taking a function pointer without casting).
(cherry picked from commit a10156f516)
Add a helper function nm_device_parent_find_for_connection() to
unify implementations of setting the parent in update_connection().
There is some change in behavior, in particular for nm-device-vlan.c,
which no longer compares the link information from platform. But
update_connection() is anyway a questionable concept, only used
for external assumed connection (which itself, is questionable). Meaning,
update_connection() is a hack not science, and it's not at all clear
what the correct behavior is.
Also, note how vlan's implementation differs from all others. Why?
Should we always resort to also check the information from platform?
Either way, one of the two approaches should be used consistently and
nm_device_parent_find_for_connection() opts to not consult platform
cache.
Note the special error codes NM_UTILS_ERROR_CONNECTION_AVAILABLE_*.
This will be used to determine, whether the profile is fundamentally
incompatible with the device, or whether just some other properties
mismatch. That information will be importand during a plain `nmcli
connection up`, where NetworkManager searches all devices for a device
to activate. If no device is found (and multiple errors happened),
we want to show the error that is most likely relevant for the user.
Also note, how NMDevice's check_connection_compatible() uses the new
class field "device_class->connection_type_check_compatible" to simplify
checks for compatible profiles.
The error reason is still unused.
It seems to me the NM_DEVICE_CLASS_DECLARE_TYPES() macro confuses more
than helping. Let's explicitly initialize the two fields, albeit with
another helper macro NM_DEVICE_DEFINE_LINK_TYPES() to get the list of
link-types right.
For consistency, also leave nop-lines like
device_class->connection_type_supported = NULL;
device_class->link_types = NM_DEVICE_DEFINE_LINK_TYPES ();
because all NMDevice class init methods should have this same
boiler plate code and to make it explicit that this is intended.
And there are only 3 occurences where this actually comes into play.
