tuntap: add ioctl to attach or detach a file form tuntap device

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Sometimes usespace may need to active/deactive a queue, this could be done by
detaching and attaching a file from tuntap device.

This patch introduces a new ioctls - TUNSETQUEUE which could be used to do
this. Flag IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE were introduced to do attaching while
IFF_DETACH_QUEUE were introduced to do the detaching.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Jason Wang 2012-10-31 19:46:01 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/tun.c

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include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h

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