batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv

debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
where files are dynamically added and removed (see
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some
details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware.

Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be
moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers
for debug tables and hard to parse text files.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
[sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family,
add missing kerneldoc]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/netlink.h b/net/batman-adv/netlink.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..39044ccff662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/batman-adv/netlink.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/* Copyright (C) 2016 B.A.T.M.A.N. contributors:
+ *
+ * Matthias Schiffer
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_
+#define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_
+
+#include "main.h"
+
+void batadv_netlink_register(void);
+void batadv_netlink_unregister(void);
+
+#endif /* _NET_BATMAN_ADV_NETLINK_H_ */