| Message ID | 1235569394-15217-2-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com |
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| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:43:09 +0100 > 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> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index 03c2c24..cea9e30 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig +++ b/lib/Kconfig @@ -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 diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index 32b0e64..b2c09da 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -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 diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/lib/nlattr.c similarity index 100% rename from net/netlink/attr.c rename to lib/nlattr.c diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index cdb8fde..eab40a4 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -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 diff --git a/net/netlink/Makefile b/net/netlink/Makefile index e3589c2..bdd6ddf 100644 --- a/net/netlink/Makefile +++ b/net/netlink/Makefile @@ -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
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> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- lib/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ lib/Makefile | 2 ++ net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c | 0 net/Kconfig | 1 + net/netlink/Makefile | 2 +- 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) rename net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c (100%)