ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32

There is no more space in u8 ifa_flags. So do what davem suffested and
add another netlink attr called IFA_FLAGS for carry more flags.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
index 23357ab81a77..8ab0c2cc9b73 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ struct ifaddrmsg {
  * It makes no difference for normally configured broadcast interfaces,
  * but for point-to-point IFA_ADDRESS is DESTINATION address,
  * local address is supplied in IFA_LOCAL attribute.
+ *
+ * IFA_FLAGS is a u32 attribute that extends the u8 field ifa_flags.
+ * If present, the value from struct ifaddrmsg will be ignored.
  */
 enum {
         IFA_UNSPEC,
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ enum {
         IFA_ANYCAST,
         IFA_CACHEINFO,
         IFA_MULTICAST,
+        IFA_FLAGS,
         __IFA_MAX,
 };