Question about tlv message support

[NorthPole]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:36 AM, NorthPole <morfeas3000 at gmail.com> 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