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Commit e9cc8bdd authored Mar 04, 2009 by Geert Uytterhoeven Committed by Herbert Xu Mar 04, 2009

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>

parent 8c882f64

lib/Kconfig

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		@@ -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

lib/Makefile

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		@@ -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

net/netlink/attr.c→lib/nlattr.c

+0 −0

File moved.

net/Kconfig

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		@@ -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

net/netlink/Makefile

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		@@ -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