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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
lib/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
lib/Makefile | 2 ++
net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c | 0
net/Kconfig | 1 +
net/netlink/Makefile | 2 +-
5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
rename net/netlink/attr.c => lib/nlattr.c (100%)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 03c2c24..cea9e30 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 32b0e64..b2c09da 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
similarity index 100%
rename from net/netlink/attr.c
rename to lib/nlattr.c
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index cdb8fde..eab40a4 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 e3589c2..bdd6ddf 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
--
1.6.0.4
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
