[PATCH 1/6] netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib/
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <hidden>
Date: 2009-02-25 13:43:54
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lkml, netdev
Subsystem:
library code, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set. Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <redacted> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- lib/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ lib/Makefile | 2 ++ net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c | 0 net/Kconfig | 1 + net/netlink/Makefile | 2 +- 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) rename net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c (100%)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 03c2c24..cea9e30 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig@@ -174,4 +174,10 @@ config DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS bool "Disable obsolete cpumask functions" if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS depends on EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN +# +# Netlink attribute parsing support is select'ed if needed +# +config NLATTR + bool + endmenu
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 32b0e64..b2c09da 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK) += syscall.o obj-$(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG) += dynamic_printk.o +obj-$(CONFIG_NLATTR) += nlattr.o + hostprogs-y := gen_crc32table clean-files := crc32table.h
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
similarity index 100%
rename from net/netlink/attr.c
rename to lib/nlattr.c
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index cdb8fde..eab40a4 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ menuconfig NET bool "Networking support" + select NLATTR ---help--- Unless you really know what you are doing, you should say Y here. The reason is that some programs need kernel networking support even
diff --git a/net/netlink/Makefile b/net/netlink/Makefile
index e3589c2..bdd6ddf 100644
--- a/net/netlink/Makefile
+++ b/net/netlink/Makefile@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ # Makefile for the netlink driver. # -obj-y := af_netlink.o attr.o genetlink.o +obj-y := af_netlink.o genetlink.o
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