It is useful to color in the admin state both to easily spot failed links, but also to quickly
distinguish between links that are fully configured and in degraded mode (only IPv4LL) or in
degraded mode and still waiting for DHCP.
This is the state when we are waiting for udev to initialize the device, and waiting for
libudev and rtnl to be in sync. In the future we probably will also be waiting for nl80211.
At this point we do not yet have enough information to know whether or not networkd should
be handling the device.
sd-event does not allow multiple handlers for a single signal. However,
logind sets up signal handlers for each session with VT_PROCESS set (that
is, it has an active controller). Therefore, registering multiple such
controllers will fail.
Lets make the VT-handler global, as it's mostly trivial, anyway. This way,
the sessions don't have to take care of that and we can simply acknowledge
all VT-switch requests as we always did.
This causes machines without connectivity to hang where they would otherwise fail. Keep it
opt-in for now, but consider whether we sholud just drop it.
Don't exit the name-finding loop when the 'kernel' policy is detected. We should
still find a fallback name if possible in the (very likely) case that no kernel
name is set at all.
In contrast to the DHCP/IPv4LL/ICMP6 APIs sd-network is not a protocol
implementation but a client API for networkd, hence move it into
libsystemd proper.
The networkd should abstract the difference between DHCP supplied and
configured data, and hence the DHCP lease concept should not exposed on
the client side.
Should we want to support arbitrary DHCP fields one day, we can add a
new sd_network_get_link_dhcp_field() call or so.
In the long run this should become a full fledged client to networkd
(but not before networkd learns bus support). For now, just pull
interesting data out of networkd, udev, and rtnl and present it to the
user, in a simple but useful output.
Primarily, this means we get rid of net_parse_inaddr(), and replace it
everywhere with in_addr_from_string() and in_addr_from_string_auto().
These functions do not clobber the callers arguments on failure, which
is more close to our usual coding style.
Tom Gundersen