tap_v2: multiple improvements

 - add support for assigning tap interface to the bridge
 - add support for assigning tap interface host side ip4 and ip6 address
 - host namespace can be specified as PID (pid:12345) or full path to file
 - automatically bring linux interface up

Change-Id: I1cf7c3cad9a740e430cc1b9c2bb0aad0ba4cc8d8
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tap.h b/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tap.h
index 58dcb5bda51..0e0f8cb4056 100644
--- a/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tap.h
+++ b/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tap.h
@@ -25,13 +25,20 @@
 typedef struct
 {
   u8 *name;
-  u8 *net_ns;
   u8 hw_addr_set;
   u8 hw_addr[6];
   u16 rx_ring_sz;
   u16 tx_ring_sz;
+  u8 *host_namespace;
+  u8 *host_bridge;
+  ip4_address_t host_ip4_addr;
+  u32 host_ip4_prefix_len;
+  ip6_address_t host_ip6_addr;
+  u32 host_ip6_prefix_len;
   /* return */
   u32 sw_if_index;
+  int rv;
+  clib_error_t *error;
 } tap_create_if_args_t;
 
 /** TAP interface details struct */
@@ -41,7 +48,7 @@ typedef struct
   u8 dev_name[64];
 } tap_interface_details_t;
 
-int tap_create_if (vlib_main_t * vm, tap_create_if_args_t * args);
+void tap_create_if (vlib_main_t * vm, tap_create_if_args_t * args);
 int tap_delete_if (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 sw_if_index);
 int tap_dump_ifs (tap_interface_details_t ** out_tapids);