Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 11212 bytes
- Lines
- 355
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: Documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/name_assign_type
Date: July 2014
KernelVersion: 3.17
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Indicates the name assignment type. Possible values are:
== ==========================================================
1 enumerated by the kernel, possibly in an unpredictable way
2 predictably named by the kernel
3 named by userspace
4 renamed
== ==========================================================
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/addr_assign_type
Date: July 2010
KernelVersion: 3.2
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Indicates the address assignment type. Possible values are:
== =============================
0 permanent address
1 randomly generated
2 stolen from another device
3 set using dev_set_mac_address
== =============================
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/addr_len
Date: April 2005
KernelVersion: 2.6.12
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Indicates the hardware address size in bytes.
Values vary based on the lower-level protocol used by the
interface (Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, IEEE 802.15.4...). See
include/uapi/linux/if_*.h for actual values.
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/address
Date: April 2005
KernelVersion: 2.6.12
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Hardware address currently assigned to this interface.
Format is a string, e.g: 00:11:22:33:44:55 for an Ethernet MAC
address.
What: /sys/class/net/<bridge iface>/bridge/group_fwd_mask
Date: January 2012
KernelVersion: 3.2
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Bitmask to allow forwarding of link local frames with address
01-80-C2-00-00-0X on a bridge device. Only values that set bits
not matching BR_GROUPFWD_RESTRICTED in net/bridge/br_private.h
allowed.
Default value 0 does not forward any link local frames.
Restricted bits:
== ========================================================
0 01-80-C2-00-00-00 Bridge Group Address used for STP
1 01-80-C2-00-00-01 (MAC Control) 802.3 used for MAC PAUSE
2 01-80-C2-00-00-02 (Link Aggregation) 802.3ad
== ========================================================
Any values not setting these bits can be used. Take special
care when forwarding control frames e.g. 802.1X-PAE or LLDP.
What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/broadcast
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.