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.
Create new function nl_send_iovec() to be used to send multiple 'struct iovec'
through the netlink socket. This will be used for NF_QUEUE, to send
packet payload of a modified packet.
Refactor nl_send() to use nl_send_iovec() sending a single struct iovec.
Create new function nl_auto_complete() by refactoring nl_send_auto_complete(),
so other functions that call nl_send may also use nl_auto_complete()
Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
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!
