From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wpan-tools 1/6] nl_updates: initial commit of nl_updates
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 11:01:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140904090119.GA18523@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140904080609.GA13752@omega>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:06:09AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:03:49AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> > This patch adds a nl_updates header file to handle signed integer types
> > via netlink.
> >
> > These types are support mainline at linux kernel but not supported by
> > current netlink library, this is a workaround to add these types.
> >
> > It's protected by an ifdef, so it's safe when new netlink libraries will
> > add these functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > src/nl_updates.h | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 src/nl_updates.h
> >
> > diff --git a/src/nl_updates.h b/src/nl_updates.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..066d5bb
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/src/nl_updates.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
> > +/*
> > + * lib/nl_updates.h - Updates to libnl which are not synced from kernel yet
> > + * Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> > + *
> > + * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>
> oh, I can't use this code it's LGPL. Sorry. I will remove it now, grml.
>
I will reimplement it to avoid any of license issues. What should I say
about it? It should be the same code like this one, I also will follow
the coding style of netlink and grab the necessary values from kernel
interface.
- Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 8:03 [PATCH wpan-tools 0/6] wpan-tools: new netlink interfaces calls Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 1/6] nl_updates: initial commit of nl_updates Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:06 ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 9:01 ` Alexander Aring [this message]
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 2/6] phy: add support for tx power pib attribute Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 3/6] phy: add support for setting cca_mode Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 4/6] mac: add support for setting max_frame_retries Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 5/6] mac: initial support for setting csma params Alexander Aring
2014-09-04 8:03 ` [PATCH wpan-tools 6/6] phy: add support for cca mode 3 and/or handling Alexander Aring
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