[PATCH 2/2] macsec_linux: Add support for MACsec hardware offload
Jouni Malinen
j at w1.fi
Tue Feb 21 09:50:29 PST 2023
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 06:57:51PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 08:01:15AM +0000, Emeel Hakim wrote:
> > > This uses libnl3 to communicate with the macsec module available on Linux. A
> > > recent enough version of libnl is needed for the hardware offload support.
>
> > > diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_macsec_linux.c b/src/drivers/driver_macsec_linux.c
> > > + rtnl_link_macsec_set_offload(drv->link,
> > > + drv->offload);
>
> This breaks the build for commonly used libnl versions and as such,
> needs some kind of conditional build option to avoid that. Maybe
> something based on LIBNL_VER_* unless there is a more convenient option.
It was actually straightforward to do that with LIBNL_VER_NUM and
LIBNL_VER(), so I applied these two patches with that conditional build
support added.
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