[PATCH net-next v2 00/25] bonding: introduce new option API

[Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>]

Hi,
This patchset's goal is to introduce a new option API which should be used
to properly describe the bonding options with their mode dependcies and
requirements. With this patchset applied we get centralized option
manipulation, automatic RTNL acquire per option setting, automatic option
range checking, mode dependcy checking and other various flags which are
described in detail in patch 01's commit message and comments.
Also the parameter passing is changed to use a specialized structure which
is initialized to a value depending on the needs.
The main exported functions are:
 __bond_opt_set() - set an option (RTNL should be acquired prior)
 bond_opt_init(val|str) - init a bond_opt_value struct for value or string
                          parameter passing
 bond_opt_tryset_rtnl() - function which tries to acquire rtnl, mainly used
                          for sysfs
 bond_opt_parse - used to parse or check for valid values
 bond_opt_get - retrieve a pointer to bond_option struct for some option
 bond_opt_get_val - retrieve a pointer to a bond_opt_value struct for
                    some value

The same functions are used to set an option via sysfs and netlink, just
the parameter that's passed is usually initialized in a different way.
The converted options have multiple style fixes, there're some longer
lines but they looked either ugly or were strings/pr_warnings, if you
think some line would be better broken just let me know :-) there're
also a few sscanf false-positive warnings.
I decided to keep the "unsuppmodes" way of mode dep checking since it's
straight forward, if we make a more general way for checking dependencies
it'll be easy to change it.

Future plans for this work include:
 - Automatic sysfs generation from the bond_opts[].
 - Use of the API in bond_check_params() and thus cleaning it up (this has
   actually started, I'll take care of the rest in a separate patch)
 - Clean up all option-unrelated files of option definitions and functions

I've tried to leave as much documentation as possible, if there's anything
unclear please let me know. One more thing, I haven't moved all
option-related functions from bonding.h to the new bond_options.h, this
will be done in a separate patch, it's in my todo list.

This patchset has been tested by setting each converted option via sysfs
and netlink to a couple of wrong values, a couple of correct values and
some random values, also for the opts that have flags they have been
tested as well.

Best regards,
 Nikolay Aleksandrov

CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
CC: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@cumulusnetworks.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

v2: Rebase on top of the reciprocal_divide patches that got pulled while
    waiting. No functional changes.


Nikolay Aleksandrov (25):
  bonding: add infrastructure for an option API
  bonding: convert mode setting to use the new option API
  bonding: convert packets_per_slave to use the new option API
  bonding: convert xmit_hash_policy to use the new option API
  bonding: convert arp_validate to use the new option API
  bonding: convert arp_all_targets to use the new option API
  bonding: convert fail_over_mac to use the new option API
  bonding: convert arp_interval to use the new option API
  bonding: convert arp_ip_target to use the new option API
  bonding: convert downdelay to use the new option API
  bonding: convert updelay to use the new option API
  bonding: convert lacp_rate to use the new option API
  bonding: convert min_links to use the new option API
  bonding: convert ad_select to use the new option API
  bonding: convert num_peer_notif to use the new option API
  bonding: convert miimon to use the new option API
  bonding: convert primary to use the new option API
  bonding: convert primary_reselect to use the new option API
  bonding: convert use_carrier to use the new option API
  bonding: convert active_slave to use the new option API
  bonding: convert queue_id to use the new option API
  bonding: convert all_slaves_active to use the new option API
  bonding: convert resend_igmp to use the new option API
  bonding: convert lp_interval to use the new option API
  bonding: convert slaves to use the new option API

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c    |  179 +++---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c |   87 ++-
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 1091 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.h |  170 ++++++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_procfs.c  |   25 +-
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c   |  519 +++--------------
 drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h      |   29 +-
 7 files changed, 1217 insertions(+), 883 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.h

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