Re: [PATCH iproute2 0/4] improve initialization of genl handle

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 04:26:54PM +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> This patchset fixes several issues for users of genetlink:
> 
>  - Duplicated code for initialization of a genl handle.
>    All users of genl must open a socket and resolve the family, and
>    use the same code to do that.
>    Solution: add a library function.
> 
>  - genl family resolution fails when the module that handles this
>    family is not loaded yet.
>    This means that if we try to initialize the genl handle early in
>    handling the command, we cannot display usage, because we fail hard
>    when trying to resolve the genl family.
>    Solution: move the genl handle initialization after handling the
>    `ip * help` case.
> 
> Sabrina Dubroca (4):
>   libgenl: introduce genl_init_handle
>   macsec: show usage even if the module is not available
>   fou: show usage even if the module is not available
>   ila: show usage even if the module is not available
> 
>  include/libgenl.h |  2 ++
>  ip/ipfou.c        | 20 ++++++--------------
>  ip/ipila.c        | 19 ++++++-------------
>  ip/ipl2tp.c       | 12 ++----------
>  ip/ipmacsec.c     | 20 +++-----------------
>  ip/tcp_metrics.c  | 14 +++-----------
>  lib/libgenl.c     | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

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Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>