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authorMatthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>2016-05-09 18:41:08 +0200
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2016-07-04 12:37:17 +0200
commit09748a22f4ab7b0ab5a83c432f6e18f65f18e09b (patch)
tree292aa3df79676ddf2cf06b9d8fb9ae6ea8e376de /net/batman-adv/netlink.h
parenta2d0816608df1ca69fcdbb9135a2b6df0c65d954 (diff)
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batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv
debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel where files are dynamically added and removed (see http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware. Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers for debug tables and hard to parse text files. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> [sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family, add missing kerneldoc] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
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+/* Copyright (C) 2016 B.A.T.M.A.N. contributors:
+ *
+ * Matthias Schiffer
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_
+#define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_
+
+#include "main.h"
+
+void batadv_netlink_register(void);
+void batadv_netlink_unregister(void);
+
+#endif /* _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_ */