Re: [PATCH 9/19] TuxOnIce: Netlink support.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi Sam.

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:03 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:39:05AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > This patch adds support for communicating with a userspace helper via a
> > netlink socket. It is used by the userspace user interface support and
> > by the storage manager support.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/power/Makefile           |    4 +
> >  kernel/power/tuxonice_netlink.c |  339 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/power/tuxonice_netlink.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/power/Makefile b/kernel/power/Makefile
> > index 07efc8a..180b89a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/power/Makefile
> > +++ b/kernel/power/Makefile
> > @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ tuxonice_core-objs := tuxonice_modules.o tuxonice_sysfs.o tuxonice_highlevel.o \
> >  
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_TOI)		+= tuxonice_builtin.o
> >  
> > +ifdef CONFIG_NET
> > +tuxonice_core-objs		+= tuxonice_netlink.o
> > +endif
> 
> If you replace tuxonice_core-objs with tuxonice_core-y in your MAkefile the
> above can be simplified to:
> tuxonice_core-$(CONFIG_NET) += tuxonice_netlink.o
> 
> (On the assumption that CONFIG_NET is a bool)

Thanks for the review.

I have support for building tuxonice as modules that I'm not asking to
be merged (at least not yet - it adds too many symbol exports at the
moment). As a result, I did the simplification but left the
tuxonice_core_objs definition. Is that what you'd do?

Regards,

Nigel

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