interface: add custom interface name support

add CLI "set interface name <current-int-name> <new-int-name>
and the corresponding binary API to allow custom interface name
setting for any interface.

Type: feature

Signed-off-by: Steven Luong <sluong@cisco.com>
Change-Id: I2b39da59879fd4526bcb5aa5854b6bd21e72ea73

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/interface.api b/src/vnet/interface.api
index 38dc4320b8d..d89dea4e353 100644
--- a/src/vnet/interface.api
+++ b/src/vnet/interface.api
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-option version = "3.2.2";
+option version = "3.2.3";
 
 import "vnet/interface_types.api";
 import "vnet/ethernet/ethernet_types.api";
@@ -458,6 +458,22 @@ autoreply define sw_interface_set_rx_placement
     bool is_main;
 };
 
+/** \brief Set custom interface name
+    Set custom interface name for the interface.
+    @param client_index - opaque cookie to identify the sender
+    @param context - sender context, to match reply w/ request
+    @param sw_if_index - the interface whose name will be set
+    @param name - the custom interface name to be set
+k
+*/
+autoreply define sw_interface_set_interface_name
+{
+  u32 client_index;
+  u32 context;
+  vl_api_interface_index_t sw_if_index;
+  string name[64];
+};
+
 /** \brief dump the rx queue placement of interface(s)
     @param sw_if_index - optional interface index for which queue placement to
       be requested. sw_if_index = ~0 will dump placement information for all