Some projects seem to have mistakenly included the private
API headers without actually needing them.
Provide dummy headers referring to the real headers to
provide backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
This patch adds the required structures and access functions to create
and manage hashtables for netlink cache objects
Signed-off-by: Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
This patch adds support to update a cache object during cache_include instead
of the current approach of deleting the original object and adding a new one.
This operation is conditional on the object implementing the operation. If
the update is not successful, cache_include falls back to the existing cache
inclusion process of deleting and adding the object.
It adds a new object operation called oo_update. oo_update takes two objects
as arguments, first being the existing cache object that needs update, the
second argument being the new object. Currently it is left to the implementor
to use the msg type to decide wether to delete or add the new object attributes
to the old one. But the operation type or msg type can be easily made part of the
object arguments.
The motivation for this change is explained below in the context of including
support for AF_BRIDGE objects into the link cache.
libnl today deletes an object before it includes an identical object.
But for some objects like the AF_BRIDGE objects this does not work well.
link cache uses the ifindex as its key in object searches.
If link cache were to support AF_BRIDGE family objects, todays implementation,
- will replace the original link object with the bridge port link object
for add notifications
- And a bridge port delete notification from kernel would delete the
link object from the cache leaving the cache without the link object
until the kernel sends another notification for that link
The bridge port link notification contains some base link object attributes
plus bridge specific protocol info attributes. In such cases we think an
operation to update the existing object in place in cache might be useful.
This can be made to work for AF_INET6 link objects too.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@cumulusnetworks.com>
The current oo_id_attrs nl_object op allows a fixed
id attribute list for an cache. But a cache with multiple families
may need to specify different id attributes for different families.
An example for this is the bridge fdb entries in the neigh cache:
neigh entries belonging to the AF_UNSPEC family use
(NEIGH_ATTR_IFINDEX | NEIGH_ATTR_DST | NEIGH_ATTR_FAMILY) as id attributes.
AF_BRIDGE fdb entries which also support the same msg type, will need to use
(NEIGH_ATTR_LLADDR | NEIGH_ATTR_FAMILY) as id attributes.
Today you cannot specify different set of attributes to two families belonging
to the same cache.
This patch adds a new object function oo_id_attrs_get to get the attributes.
An example implementation of oo_id_attrs_get for the neigh cache will
look like:
static uint32_t neigh_id_attrs_get(struct nl_object *obj)
{
struct rtnl_neigh *neigh = (struct rtnl_neigh *)obj;
if (neigh->n_family == AF_BRIDGE)
return (NEIGH_ATTR_LLADDR | NEIGH_ATTR_FAMILY);
else
return (NEIGH_ATTR_IFINDEX | NEIGH_ATTR_DST | NEIGH_ATTR_FAMILY);
}
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@cumulusnetworks.com>
Currently two attributes are regarded as different if they are absent in
both objects to be compared. This is obviously incorrect, change to
regard objects as different if an attribute is only present on one of
them or if the attribute data differs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This interface was internal so far which required all code defining
objects to be compiled with the sources available.
This change exposes struct nl_object_ops which seems safe as it
is not supposed to be embedded in other structures.
Patch contains extensive documentation to help with the creation
of own object implementations.
