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| author | Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> | 2009-03-04 14:53:30 +0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2009-03-04 14:53:30 +0800 |
| commit | e9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed (patch) | |
| tree | 9d311256882e48bd133f31db564a307c2a271453 | |
| parent | 8c882f64130071eaebdc0861bee34a73e436f004 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed.tar.gz lwn-e9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed.zip | |
netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
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 <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/nlattr.c (renamed from net/netlink/attr.c) | 0 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/Makefile | 2 |
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index 03c2c24b9083..cea9e30a88ff 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 32b0e64ded27..b2c09da02cae 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 index 56c3ce7fe29a..56c3ce7fe29a 100644 --- a/net/netlink/attr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index cdb8fdef6c4a..eab40a481356 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 e3589c2de49e..bdd6ddf4e95b 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 |