int (*get_ifindex)(const struct netdev *netdev);
/* Sets 'carrier' to true if carrier is active (link light is on) on
- * 'netdev'. */
+ * 'netdev'.
+ *
+ * May be null if device does not provide carrier status (will be always
+ * up as long as device is up).
+ */
int (*get_carrier)(const struct netdev *netdev, bool *carrier);
+ /* Sets 'miimon' to true if 'netdev' is up according to its MII. If
+ * 'netdev' does not support MII, may fall back to another method or return
+ * EOPNOTSUPP.
+ *
+ * This function may be set to null if it would always return EOPNOTSUPP.
+ */
+ int (*get_miimon)(const struct netdev *netdev, bool *miimon);
+
/* Retrieves current device stats for 'netdev' into 'stats'.
*
* A network device that supports some statistics but not others, it should
int (*get_next_hop)(const struct in_addr *host, struct in_addr *next_hop,
char **netdev_name);
+ /* Retrieves the status of the device.
+ *
+ * Populates 'sh' with key-value pairs representing the status of the
+ * device. A device's status is a set of key-value string pairs
+ * representing netdev type specific information. For more information see
+ * ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5).
+ *
+ * The data of 'sh' are heap allocated strings which the caller is
+ * responsible for deallocating.
+ *
+ * This function may be set to null if it would always return EOPNOTSUPP
+ * anyhow. */
+ int (*get_status)(const struct netdev *netdev, struct shash *sh);
+
/* Looks up the ARP table entry for 'ip' on 'netdev' and stores the
* corresponding MAC address in 'mac'. A return value of ENXIO, in
* particular, indicates that there is no ARP table entry for 'ip' on
void (*poll_remove)(struct netdev_notifier *notifier);
};
+int netdev_register_provider(const struct netdev_class *);
+int netdev_unregister_provider(const char *type);
+const struct netdev_class *netdev_lookup_provider(const char *type);
+
extern const struct netdev_class netdev_linux_class;
+extern const struct netdev_class netdev_internal_class;
extern const struct netdev_class netdev_tap_class;
-extern const struct netdev_class netdev_patch_class;
-extern const struct netdev_class netdev_gre_class;
-extern const struct netdev_class netdev_capwap_class;
#ifdef __cplusplus
}