From 5a5aa73158027ae74eef3433388350c214b908f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:34:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: Provide rtnl_link_bridge_alloc()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
---
 include/netlink/route/link/bridge.h |  2 ++
 lib/route/link/bridge.c             | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/netlink/route/link/bridge.h b/include/netlink/route/link/bridge.h
index 5522fc0..71dcc24 100644
--- a/include/netlink/route/link/bridge.h
+++ b/include/netlink/route/link/bridge.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ enum rtnl_link_bridge_flags {
 	RTNL_BRIDGE_FAST_LEAVE		= 0x0008,
 };
 
+extern struct rtnl_link *rtnl_link_bridge_alloc(void);
+
 extern int	rtnl_link_is_bridge(struct rtnl_link *);
 extern int	rtnl_link_bridge_has_ext_info(struct rtnl_link *);
 
diff --git a/lib/route/link/bridge.c b/lib/route/link/bridge.c
index a306c9c..eb02b22 100644
--- a/lib/route/link/bridge.c
+++ b/lib/route/link/bridge.c
@@ -183,6 +183,27 @@ static int bridge_compare(struct rtnl_link *_a, struct rtnl_link *_b,
 }
 /** @endcond */
 
+/**
+ * Allocate link object of type bridge
+ *
+ * @return Allocated link object or NULL.
+ */
+struct rtnl_link *rtnl_link_bridge_alloc(void)
+{
+	struct rtnl_link *link;
+	int err;
+
+	if (!(link = rtnl_link_alloc()))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if ((err = rtnl_link_set_type(link, "bridge")) < 0) {
+		rtnl_link_put(link);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	return link;
+}
+
 /**
  * Check if a link is a bridge
  * @arg link		Link object