Hi all, Now that I found some time to post I just wanted to thank you all for the help, your posts helped a lot :-) On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:36 AM, NorthPole <morfeas3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> @JAYESH TANK >> thank you very much :-) that was a very good starting poind :D >> >> >> @Javier >> you are right, so here is something more specific >> >> I want to add a framework for tlv message construction and parsing in >> a wireless mesh routing protocol so as it can have the advantages of >> the tlv way of communication (one of which is backwards compatibility) >> >> afaik tlvs are used in many places in the kernel and as Jayesh stated >> there are no ready made apis. >> So if I want to do that I have to copy someone else's code and modify >> it accordingly >> > > Hi, > > Netlink has some sort of TLV: > > nla_put_string(), nla_put_u32(), nla_put_u8(), etc. > > But use a socket buffer (struct sk_buff) to store this data. Since you > will use to store and retrieve this info for a networking protocol > (mesh routing), it probably makes sense to reuse Netlink functions. > > Take a look to: include/net/netlink.h > > Hope it helps, > > -- > Javier Martínez Canillas > (+34) 682 39 81 69 > Barcelona, Spain _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
