qeth: bridgeport support - address notifications

Introduce functions to enable and disable bridgeport address
notification feature, sysfs attributes for access to these
functions from userspace, and udev events emitted when a host
joins or exits a bridgeport-enabled HiperSocket channel.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eugene Crosser
2014-01-14 15:54:13 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
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@@ -19,3 +19,32 @@ BRIDGEPORT=statechange - indicates that the Bridge Port device changed
ROLE={primary|secondary|none} - the role assigned to the port.
STATE={active|standby|inactive} - the newly assumed state of the port.
When run on HiperSockets Bridge Capable Port hardware with host address
notifications enabled, a udev event with ACTION=CHANGE is emitted.
It is emitted on behalf of the corresponding ccwgroup device when a host
or a VLAN is registered or unregistered on the network served by the device.
The event has the following attributes:
BRIDGEDHOST={reset|register|deregister|abort} - host address
notifications are started afresh, a new host or VLAN is registered or
deregistered on the Bridge Port HiperSockets channel, or address
notifications are aborted.
VLAN=numeric-vlan-id - VLAN ID on which the event occurred. Not included
if no VLAN is involved in the event.
MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx - MAC address of the host that is being registered
or deregistered from the HiperSockets channel. Not reported if the
event reports the creation or destruction of a VLAN.
NTOK_BUSID=x.y.zzzz - device bus ID (CSSID, SSID and device number).
NTOK_IID=xx - device IID.
NTOK_CHPID=xx - device CHPID.
NTOK_CHID=xxxx - device channel ID.
Note that the NTOK_* attributes refer to devices other than the one
connected to the system on which the OS is running.