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authorMichael Brown2011-07-15 19:48:46 +0200
committerMichael Brown2011-07-15 19:48:46 +0200
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[netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()
Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/ipxe')
-rw-r--r--src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h28
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h b/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h
index 64285984e..3633a1659 100644
--- a/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h
+++ b/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h
@@ -66,20 +66,23 @@ struct net_protocol {
/**
* Process received packet
*
- * @v iobuf I/O buffer
- * @v netdev Network device
- * @v ll_dest Link-layer destination address
- * @v ll_source Link-layer source address
+ * @v iobuf I/O buffer
+ * @v netdev Network device
+ * @v ll_dest Link-layer destination address
+ * @v ll_source Link-layer source address
+ * @v flags Packet flags
+ * @ret rc Return status code
*
* This method takes ownership of the I/O buffer.
*/
int ( * rx ) ( struct io_buffer *iobuf, struct net_device *netdev,
- const void *ll_dest, const void *ll_source );
+ const void *ll_dest, const void *ll_source,
+ unsigned int flags );
/**
* Transcribe network-layer address
*
- * @v net_addr Network-layer address
- * @ret string Human-readable transcription of address
+ * @v net_addr Network-layer address
+ * @ret string Human-readable transcription of address
*
* This method should convert the network-layer address into a
* human-readable format (e.g. dotted quad notation for IPv4).
@@ -97,6 +100,12 @@ struct net_protocol {
uint8_t net_addr_len;
};
+/** Packet is a multicast (including broadcast) packet */
+#define LL_MULTICAST 0x0001
+
+/** Packet is a broadcast packet */
+#define LL_BROADCAST 0x0002
+
/**
* A link-layer protocol
*
@@ -125,11 +134,12 @@ struct ll_protocol {
* @ret ll_dest Link-layer destination address
* @ret ll_source Source link-layer address
* @ret net_proto Network-layer protocol, in network-byte order
+ * @ret flags Packet flags
* @ret rc Return status code
*/
int ( * pull ) ( struct net_device *netdev, struct io_buffer *iobuf,
const void **ll_dest, const void **ll_source,
- uint16_t *net_proto );
+ uint16_t *net_proto, unsigned int *flags );
/**
* Initialise link-layer address
*
@@ -611,7 +621,7 @@ extern int net_tx ( struct io_buffer *iobuf, struct net_device *netdev,
const void *ll_source );
extern int net_rx ( struct io_buffer *iobuf, struct net_device *netdev,
uint16_t net_proto, const void *ll_dest,
- const void *ll_source );
+ const void *ll_source, unsigned int flags );
extern void net_poll ( void );
/**