Re: [PATCH] Add nl_open to libnetlink

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:05:00 +0900
Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 19:46:32 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of writing two new modules fo ip(8), ippolicy and
> > ipstate which will be a NETLINK based replacement for setkey.
> > 
> > In order to do so, I need to get libnetlink to speak the XFRM protocol.
> > Thus I've added a new nl_open function which allows the protocol to
> > be specified.
> 
> I agree with it.
> 
> Anyway, I have code for ip(8) for similar reason.
> The patch is below:
> http://www.linux-ipv6.org/~nakam/ipxfrm-20040705.diff

This code won't build with current kernel headers. There is no xfrmsel_icmp_type
in current 2.6 definition of struct xfrm_selector.