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
Add NMExportedObject, make it the base class of all D-Bus-exported
types, and move the nm-properties-changed-signal logic into it. (Also,
make NMSettings use the same properties-changed code as everything
else, which it was not previously doing, presumably for historical
reasons).
(This is mostly just shuffling code around at this point, but
NMExportedObject will be more important in the gdbus port, since
gdbus-codegen doesn't do a very good job of supporting objects that
export multiple interfaces [as each NMDevice subclass does, for
example], so we will need more glue/helper code in NMExportedObject
then.)
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).
Add a function to get a concise representation of the
device type.
libnm already has nm_device_get_type_description() for that
and it is shown by
nmcli -f GENERAL.TYPE device show
Reimplement that function for nm-core. Just take care that the
two implementations don't diverge.
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".
Add nm-core-types.h, typedefing all of the GObject types in
libnm-core; this is needed so that nm-setting.h can reference
NMConnection in addition to nm-connection.h referencing NMSetting.
Removing the cross-includes from the various headers causes lots of
fallout elsewhere. (In particular, nm-utils.h used to include
nm-connection.h, which included every setting header, so any file that
included nm-utils.h automatically got most of the rest of libnm-core
without needing to pay attention to specifics.) Fix this up by
including nm-core-internal.h from those files that are now missing
includes.
Most NMDevice types defined their own error domain but then never used
it. A few did use their errors, but some of those errors are redundant
with NMDeviceError, and others can be added to it.
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.
Instead of tracking unmanaged-ness in a couple variables (and because
I'd like to add one for user-unmanaged later) let's do it in a single
flags variable, and consolidate setting of the unmanaged states in one
place.
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.
Some devices aren't expected to support carrier detection, so there's
no reason to have NMDevice log about it. Move that message into
NMDeviceEthernet, where failure to support carrier-detect really is
worth mentioning.
Also, make NMDeviceEthernet use NMPlatform for carrier-detection
detection (and move the MII carrier-detect-support check from
NMDeviceEthernet into NMLinuxPlatform).
Finally, have NMDeviceGeneric actually check whether the device
supports carrier detect, rather than just always assuming it doesn't.
This is really, really old 2007-era code. Any NMDevice that gets
created is already supported, so there's no reason to have every
device set NM_DEVICE_CAP_NM_SUPPORTED. For those subclasses that
only set that capability, we can remove the subclass method
entirely. Next, it turns out that the "type capabilities" code
wasn't used anywhere, so remove that too. Lastly, "cipsec"
interfaces haven't been used on linux in about 5 years (they
were created by the Cisco binary-only IPSec kernel module for
Cisco VPNs long before vpnc and openswan came around) so we can
remove that code too.
Change the way that nm-properties-changed-signal works, and parse the
dbus-binding-tool-generated info to get the exact list of properties
that it's expected to export.
This makes NM_PROPERTY_PARAM_NO_EXPORT unnecessary, and also fixes the
problem of properties like NMDevice:hw-address being exported on
classes where it shouldn't be.
