One of the current goals of netlink-protocol.h, for better or for worse, is
to ensure that the same definitions are available whether a Linux kernel is
in use or not. One of the ways it accomplishes this is by putting the
conditional definitions that test for features missing in old kernels at
the very end, after the dummy definitions used on non-Linux platforms.
However, commit b0025c8389f "netlink-protocol: Define missing symbols"
added new conditional definitions only in the Linux platform case, which
means that those definitions won't be available on non-Linux platforms.
This commit moves them to the end, instead.
The symbols that are moved are only used from netlink-socket.c, which is
only built on Linux platforms, so this does not change an actual bug. It
only makes the location of the definitions consistent with prior practice.
When this library was originally implemented, support for Linux 2.4 was
important. The Netlink implementation in Linux only added support for
joining and leaving multicast groups after a socket is bound as of Linux
2.6.14, so the library did not support it either. But the current version
of Open vSwitch targets Linux 2.6.18 and over, so it's fine to add this
support now, and this commit does so.
This will be used more extensively in upcoming commits.
Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
Linux since v2.6.24 has a couple of couple of bits at the top of
nla_type that one is apparently supposed to ignore. This commit
starts doing that in Open vSwitch userspace.
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Until now, netlink-protocol.h and <linux/netlink.h> could not both be
included by a single source file, because they contained conflicting
definitions. This commit fixes the problem, by having netlink-protocol.h
delegate to <linux/netlink.h> where it is available.
Here's an example of the problem: odp-util.c includes both
datapath-protocol.h and will need netlink-protocol.h also so that it can
look through actions defined as struct nlattr. datapath-protocol.h
includes <linux/if_link.h> for the definition of rtnl_link_stats64, and
<linux/if_link.h> includes <linux/netlink.h>.
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
