3 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Ben Pfaff	46097491e4	netdev-linux: Rename "linux_netdev_*" to "rtnetlink_*". ... It was getting to be too confusing to have both netdev_linux_* functions and linux_netdev_* functions. Rename the latter to make the distinction more obvious. "rtnetlink" seems to be a fairly good name because that's what the kernel calls it, so the name will be familiar at least to people who know about rtnetlink.	2009-07-30 16:07:14 -07:00
Ben Pfaff	8b61709d5e	netdev: Implement an abstract interface to network devices. ... This new abstraction layer allows multiple implementations of network devices in a single running process. This will be useful, for example, to support network devices that are simulated entirely in the running process or that communicate with other processes over Unix domain sockets, etc. The reimplemented tap device support in this commit has not been tested.	2009-07-30 16:07:14 -07:00
Ben Pfaff	e9e28be359	Introduce general-purpose ways to wait for dpif and netdev changes. ... The dpif and netdev code has had various ways to check for changes to dpifs and netdevs over the course of Open vSwitch development. All of these have been thus far fairly specific to the Linux implementation. This commit is the start of a more general API for watching for such changes. The dpif-related parts seem fairly mature and so they are documented, the netdev parts will probably need to change somewhat and so they are not documented yet.	2009-07-06 09:07:24 -07:00