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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>2009-03-04 14:53:30 +0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2009-03-04 14:53:30 +0800
commite9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed (patch)
tree9d311256882e48bd133f31db564a307c2a271453
parent8c882f64130071eaebdc0861bee34a73e436f004 (diff)
downloadlinux-e9cc8bddaea3944fabfebb968bc88d603239beed.tar.bz2
netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
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> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig6
-rw-r--r--lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--lib/nlattr.c (renamed from net/netlink/attr.c)0
-rw-r--r--net/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/Makefile2
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 03c2c24b9083..cea9e30a88ff 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 32b0e64ded27..b2c09da02cae 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
index 56c3ce7fe29a..56c3ce7fe29a 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index cdb8fdef6c4a..eab40a481356 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 e3589c2de49e..bdd6ddf4e95b 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