This submodule includes Jiří Pírko's library for sending/recieving
neighbor discovery protocol messages and will be used for
NetworkManager's internal userspace implementation of IPv6 router
discovery.
Could cause a crash when updating a connection, since dbus-glib may
clear DBusGMethodInvocation resources during this method. Since
update_complete() is actually our completion/cleanup handler for
this operation chain, we can remove the standalone call to
dbus_g_method_return().
We don't always want to immediately write new connections to disk, to
facilitate "runtime" or "temporary" connections where an interface's
runtime config isn't backed by on-disk config. Also, just because
an interface's configuration is changed doesn't necessarily mean
that new configuration should be written to disk either.
Add D-Bus methods for adding new connections and for updating existing
connections that don't immediately save the connection to disk.
Also add infrastructure to indicate to plugins that the new connection
shouldn't be immediately saved if the connection was added with the
new method.
We'll need this for later with unsaved connections. The ifnet
plugin previously tracked connections by the "conn_name" which
was derived from keys in the /etc/conf.d/net file. These keys
take two forms:
1) interface name
config_eth0=(
"192.168.4.121/24"
"dhcp6"
)
2) wifi SSID, either text or hex-encoded:
config_myssid=("dhcp")
config_0xab3ace=("dhcp")
The conf.d net connection name is apparently usually an interface
name, so when writing to /etc/conf.d/net the NM connection name is
changed from eg "Ethernet connection 1" to the next available
interface name based on the type of connection, eg "eth0".
The ifnet plugin actively removed connections that were not present
in /etc/conf.d/net during the reload_connections() call, but in the
future we'll want to allow unsaved connections which in the case of
ifnet clearly won't yet be written to the file. Since only
connections written to the file have a "conn_name", tracking
connections by conn_name no longer works.
Use the new NMConnection 'changed' signal to mark connections
as dirty/unsaved, and reset that when they get flushed to disk.
Previously, the 'Updated' signal was emitted only when the
connection was changed and flushed to disk, but now we have
more granular needs, and the signal is emitted whenever the
connection actually *is* changed, regardless of whether its
flushed to disk or not.
Rather than having a bunch of udev-based tests, use
nm_platform_link_get_type() to categorize devices.
Incomplete, as NMPlatform still categorizes most hardware types as
"ETHERNET", so we still need udev-based tests for those.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687254
Add hidden command line option --run-from-build-dir; with that, helpers
like nm-avahi-autoipd.action and nm-dhcp-helper will be called from the
build tree instead of libexecdir, which allows testing without having to
install first.
Helper paths are now stored in global variables instead of macros, and
get modified with that new option.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698752
Add single-letter options for --version, --no-daemon, --debug, and
--pid-file (and document them, as well as the existing single-letter
option for --help).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700550
When run with --no-daemon, NM used to duplicate all syslog output to
stderr, for ease of debugging. But this meant it had to tell systemd
to ignore stderr, so you wouldn't get duplicated log entries. But that
meant we lost error messages that didn't go through nm_log. (eg,
g_warning()s and g_return_if_fail()s).
Fix this by making --no-daemon no longer duplicate syslog output to
stderr, and removing the "StandardError=null" from the systemd service
file. To get the old behavior, you can use --debug instead of
--no-daemon.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700550
nm_device_state_changed() had a check to make sure it wasn't entered
recursively (which had been a source of bugs in the past), but it was
global rather than per-device, so it caused errors when VLANs changed
state in response to their parent device changing state. Fix that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698619
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.
With carrier handling moved to NMDevice, the only thing left in
NMDeviceWired was speed, which was actually ethernet-specific anyway.
So move that to NMDeviceEthernet, and then kill NMDeviceWired.
