net: introduce generic switch devices support

The goal of this is to provide a possibility to support various switch
chips. Drivers should implement relevant ndos to do so. Now there is
only one ndo defined:
- for getting physical switch id is in place.

Note that user can use random port netdevice to access the switch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/switchdev.h b/include/net/switchdev.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7a52360a1446
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/switchdev.h
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+ * include/net/switchdev.h - Switch device API
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_SWITCHDEV_H_
+#define _LINUX_SWITCHDEV_H_
+
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV
+
+int netdev_switch_parent_id_get(struct net_device *dev,
+                                struct netdev_phys_item_id *psid);
+
+#else
+
+static inline int netdev_switch_parent_id_get(struct net_device *dev,
+                                              struct netdev_phys_item_id *psid)
+{
+        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SWITCHDEV_H_ */