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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2013-11-25 01:33:04 +0100
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2013-11-25 14:53:56 +0100
commitd2df0d0ed3a88e491405b403e6022e6619750130 (patch)
treed9bccbc34a4c2283403498b9b7ca7ce0d702a6c7 /src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c
parent517dcac840fe8d5bf30a05c0084eff219af10a4a (diff)
udev: net_setup_link - don't use Description as Alias
Use Description only internally, and allow Alias to be set as a separate option. For instance SNMP uses ifalias for a specific purpose, so let's not write to it by default.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c')
-rw-r--r--src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c b/src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c
index d40858a63b..4e7661bb77 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-rtnl/rtnl-util.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ int rtnl_set_link_name(sd_rtnl *rtnl, int ifindex, const char *name) {
assert(ifindex > 0);
assert(name);
- r = sd_rtnl_message_link_new(RTM_NEWLINK, ifindex, 0, 0, &message);
+ r = sd_rtnl_message_link_new(RTM_SETLINK, ifindex, 0, 0, &message);
if (r < 0)
return r;
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ int rtnl_set_link_name(sd_rtnl *rtnl, int ifindex, const char *name) {
return 0;
}
-int rtnl_set_link_properties(sd_rtnl *rtnl, int ifindex, const struct ether_addr *mac, unsigned mtu) {
+int rtnl_set_link_properties(sd_rtnl *rtnl, int ifindex, const char *alias,
+ const struct ether_addr *mac, unsigned mtu) {
_cleanup_sd_rtnl_message_unref_ sd_rtnl_message *message = NULL;
bool need_update = false;
int r;
@@ -57,13 +58,22 @@ int rtnl_set_link_properties(sd_rtnl *rtnl, int ifindex, const struct ether_addr
assert(rtnl);
assert(ifindex > 0);
- if (!mac && mtu == 0)
+ if (!alias && !mac && mtu == 0)
return 0;
- r = sd_rtnl_message_link_new(RTM_NEWLINK, ifindex, 0, 0, &message);
+ r = sd_rtnl_message_link_new(RTM_SETLINK, ifindex, 0, 0, &message);
if (r < 0)
return r;
+ if (alias) {
+ r = sd_rtnl_message_append(message, IFLA_IFALIAS, alias);
+ if (r < 0)
+ return r;
+
+ need_update = true;
+
+ }
+
if (mac) {
r = sd_rtnl_message_append(message, IFLA_ADDRESS, mac);
if (r < 0)