Including linux/if.h in netlink/route/link.h causes issues
in cases where libnl is used in conjuntion with other third
party libraries that include net/if.h. Seems to be a long
checkered history of symbol collisions between these two
files. As it turns out, including linux/if.h from within
netlink/route/link.h is actually unecessary. I resurrected
a forgotten path from this thread:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libnl/2012-April/000525.html
By removing the include as the patch suggests we can get
around the nuissance of the symbol collisions.
https://github.com/thom311/libnl/pull/73
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Take 'include/uapi/linux/snmp.h' from current kernel v3.13
(commit d8ec26d7f8287f5788a494f56e8814210f0e64be).
The header file added new values for IPSTATS_MIB_* and ICMP6_MIB_*, but
more importantly, the kernel broke user space API by reordering enum values in
IPSTATS_MIB_*. Add a workaround when parsing IFLA_PROTINFO trying to
be compatible with both older and newer kernels.
Note that this workaround might fail for some specific kernel versions by
assuming the old enum value mapping, although the kernel version already
contains the API change. In this case rtnl_link_get_stat() mixes up
values.
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Reason: there is no rtnl_link_free() definition anywhere in the code.
Signed-off-by: Tony Cheneau <tony.cheneau@amnesiak.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
New functions:
rtnl_link_set_group(link, group)
rtnl_link_get_group(link)
The group identifier is printed in the brief section as "group N"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Adds rtnl_link_enslave() / rtnl_link_release() providing a genreic
link enslaving/release API for use with all link types which use
the IFLA_MASTER property.
Provide nl_pickup() to pick up an answer from a netlink request and parse
it using the supplied parser.
Add rtnl_link_get_kernel() which sends an RTM_GETLINK to the kernel to
fetch a single link directly from the kernel. This can be faster than
dumping the whole table, especially if lots of links are configured.
Adds a family argument which allows to request link dumps for a certain
address family. This allows to f.e. dump ipv6 specific statistics and data.
nl-link-list --family inet6
- parse IFLA_IFALIAS if available
- provides API to access/change ifalias
rtnl_link_get_ifalias(link)
rtnl_link_set_ifalias(link, alias)
- extends nl-link-set to test functionality
The idea of a common handle is long revised and only misleading,
nl_handle really represents a socket with some additional
action handlers assigned to it.
Alias for nl_handle is kept for backwards compatibility.
In order for the interface to become more thread safe, the error
handling was revised to no longer depend on a static errno and
error string buffer.
This patch converts all error paths to return a libnl specific
error code which can be translated to a error message using
nl_geterror(int error). The functions nl_error() and
nl_get_errno() are therefore obsolete.
This change required various sets of function prototypes to be
changed in order to return an error code, the most prominent
are:
struct nl_cache *foo_alloc_cache(...);
changed to:
int foo_alloc_cache(..., struct nl_cache **);
struct nl_msg *foo_build_request(...);
changed to:
int foo_build_request(..., struct nl_msg **);
struct foo *foo_parse(...);
changed to:
int foo_parse(..., struct foo **);
This pretty much only leaves trivial allocation functions to
still return a pointer object which can still return NULL to
signal out of memory.
This change is a serious API and ABI breaker, sorry!
