On Thursday 28 April 2016 22:37:21 Andrew Lunn wrote: > From: Matthias Schiffer > > 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. > > Also, the debugfs interface will try to fix the whole list of originators/ > TT entries into a single buffer. The situation has improved in recent > kernels,as the seq_file infrastructure will fall back to vmalloc now when > kmalloc fails. Still, converting all information to text and potentially > retrying multiple times until the buffer is big enough is very inefficient. > > This commit adds generic infrastructur for the netlink interface to > batman-adv and implements the following command: > > * BATADV_CMD_GET_ROUTING_ALGOS: will return the list of supported routing > algorithms > * BATADV_CMD_GET_MESH_INFO: will return basic information about a > batman-adv softif (name, index and MAC address for both the softif and > the primary hardif; routing algorithm; batman-adv version) > * BATADV_CMD_GET_HARDIFS: will return the list of hardifs (including > index, name and MAC address) of all hardifs for a given softif > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer > --- > Makefile | 1 + > include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h | 49 ++++++++ > net/batman-adv/Makefile | 1 + > net/batman-adv/main.c | 48 ++++++++ > net/batman-adv/main.h | 1 + > net/batman-adv/netlink.c | 251 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/batman-adv/netlink.h | > 36 ++++++ > 7 files changed, 387 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h > create mode 100644 net/batman-adv/netlink.c > create mode 100644 net/batman-adv/netlink.h You can find the missing includes in the attached patch Kind regards, Sven