A database to resolve qdisc/class names to classid values and vice versa.
The function rtnl_tc_handle2str() and rtnl_tc_str2handle() will resolve
names automatically.
A CLI based tool nl-classid-lookup is provided to integrate the database
into existing iproute2 scripts.
Hello! It seems that libnl is missing an include for limits.h, which
causes it to FTBFS when glibc 2.8 is installed (currently in
experimental, so I left this bug severity at "normal").
In file included from addr.c:28:
../include/netlink-local.h:119:1: warning: "__deprecated" redefined
In file included from /usr/include/linux/stddef.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/posix_types.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/types.h:8,
from ../include/netlink-local.h:37,
from addr.c:28:
/usr/include/linux/compiler.h:45:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
This happens about 100 times. Suggested patch:
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!
10-amd64-linux-types.patch from Ubuntu:
- In order to make libnl compilable on amd64 include linux/types.h
rather than defining the types ourselves; necessary as other headers
include that and get different definitions.
-- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:12:08 +0000
This interface was internal so far which required all code defining
caches to be compiled with the sources available.
In order to simplify the interface, the co_msg_parser prototype was
changed to take the struct nl_parser_param directly instead of a
void *. It used to be void * because the co_msg_parser was directly
passed as the NL_CB_VALID callback function.
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.
Thomas Graf