Due to limitations in dbus-glib, where one GObject cannot have more
than one introspection XML object attached to it, we used to include
more than one <interface> in the VPNConnection object introspection
XML. This was suboptimal for two reasons:
1) it duplicated the Connection.Active introspection XML which
made it harder for clients to use the introspection data in a
dynamic fashion, besides looking ugly in the docs
2) not many other programs use this feature of dbus-glib, which
means it didn't get a lot of testing, and broke, which sucks
for NM.
To fix this issue, create a base class for NMVpnConnection that
handles the Connection.Active API, and make NMVpnConnection itself
handle just the VPN pieces that it layers on top. This makes
dbus-glib happy because we aren't using two <interface> blocks
in the same introspection XML, and it makes the NM code more
robust because we can re-use the existing Connection.Active
introspection XML in the NMVpnConnectionBase class.
Heavily modify Inaky's Intel WiMAX SDK glue (originally from connman)
to be more generic and more thread-safe, and suitable for use with
NetworkManager instead of rolling our own client code. Rewrite the
NMDeviceWimax code to mostly work.
Still to be done: actual connection logic, DHCP handling, spawning
wimaxd if it's not started yet
This commit implements MAC cloning feature in NetworkManager. To support that,
'PermHwAddress' property is added into *.Device.Wired and *.Device.Wireless
interfaces. The permanent MAC address is obtained when creating the device, and
is used for 'locking' connections to the device. If a cloned MAC is specified
in connection to be activated, the MAC is set to the interface in stage1. While
disconecting, the permanent MAC is set back to the interface.
Default to 'not allowed', distros that need backwards compatibility
can flip this to 'yes' if they need to. At this point, only power
management scripts should call these functions.
Track missing firmware and ensure the device can't be used when firmware
is missing. Add a property for missing firmware so that clients can do
something intelligent with this information.
Since forever we've used sleep/wake as the way to implement
Networking Enabled. When the state file was introduced to make the
networking and wifi states persistent, we ran into a bug where
a failed suspend (like if the machine ran out of power while
suspended) would result in networking being disabled on reboot
since suspend/resume used the same knob as enable/disable.
This patch adds a distinct call for enable/disable networking
which changes the state file, while sleep/wake no longer change
the state file.
We can change the property's D-Bus signature (and thus API) here
because querying the IP6Config object's properties caused NM to
crash. Apparently we forgot to change the type of the Address
property when we C&P-ed the IP4Config into the IP6Config, and
DBUS_TYPE_G_ARRAY_OF_ARRAY_OF_UINT is certainly the wrong type
to use since the backing object that dbus-glib would marshal
into the ARRAY_OF_ARRAY_OF_UINT wasn't that type, causing a
crash in dbus-glib when a client got the IP6Config.
Due to dbus-glib limitations we still have to keep two copies of this,
and furthermore PropertiesChanged won't yet trigger for the VPN bits
since there's no way to push out signals on a different interface.
In the past networkmanager did not allow to manually disconnect devices.
Manually disconnected devices will not be automatically reconnected until one
of the following events occur:
1. user activates a connection for the currently disconnected device
2. network manager awakes from hibernate/suspend
3. network manager is restarted (e.g. reboot)
Add a Disconnect method to generic NMDevice dbus interface; set a new private
autoconnect_inhibit flag if Disconnect method is called through dbus.
Based on this auto activation for devices gets inhibited until one
of the above events occur.
Instead of doing this in every device subclass, do it in the NMDevice
superclass. nm_device_can_activate() already did the same logic that
each of the subclass device_state_changed() handlers were doing to
figure out whether they could do the transition from unavailable
to disconnected, so just use that in NMDevice and kill lots of code.
Since the new PolicyKit does away with easy checking of authorizations,
we get to implement it by ourselves, but that's OK since we can actually
use it for a lot more stuff. So add the GetPermissions call which returns
the permissions the caller actually has, and a signal informing callers
that their permissions might have changed. Hook this all up to
PolicyKit so it's useful.
Make NMSettingsService implement most of the NMSettingsInterface
API to make subclasses simpler, and consolidate exporting of
NMExportedConnection subclasses in NMSettingsService instead of
in 3 places. Make NMSysconfigSettings a subclass of
NMSettingsService and save a ton of code.
Mark activation requests that contain connections to be assumed,
and use that to short-circuit various parts of the activation
process by not touching various device attributes, since they
are already set up. Also ensure the device is not deactivated
when it initially becomes managed, because that would kill the
connection we are about to assume.
