[PATCH] Support for the LOWER_UP flag

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 20:29, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attatched is a patch for the LOWER_UP flag in 'ip link/addr' output. 
> Useful to check if network cable is inserted or not.
> 
> The code does an ugly ifdef to check if IFF_LOWER_UP is declared or not. 
> On my zenwalk desktop it was not. It looks like iproute2 maintain their 
> own copies of the linux headers so I suppose we cannot expect the flag 
> be there. (should mabe be in one of the include files rather than in the 
> .c file?)
> 
> The patch does increase the size a bit due to a macro. Maybe should have 
> a config option for it?
> 
> on my hardened uclibc i386 build:
> 
> function                                             old     new   delta
> ipaddr_list_or_flush                                2929    2981     +52
> .rodata                                             7677    7683      +6
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 58/0)               Total: 58 
> bytes
>    text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
>   47498        670       4244      52412       ccbc    busybox_old
>   47556        670       4244      52470       ccf6    busybox_unstripped

Applied, thanks. (It also brought my attention to ~300+ bytes
of bloat nearby, which I removed).
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vda