This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
- use cleanup macros everywhere.
- In particular use nm_auto_clear_variant_builder to free the
GVariantBuilder in the error cases. Note that the error cases
anyway are asserted against, so during a normal test run there
was no leak. But we should not write software like that.
- use nm_utils_strsplit_set_with_empty() instead of g_strsplit_set().
We should use our variant also in unit-tests, because that way the
function gets more test coverage. And it likely performs better
anyway.
When nmcli needs secrets for a connection it asks them for every known
setting. nmtui is a bit smarter and asks them only for settings that
actually exist in the connection. Make a step further and let clients
ask secrets only for setting that exist *and* have any secret
property. This decreases the number of D-Bus calls when editing or
showing a connection with secrets.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506536https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/327
initscripts support rule-* and rule6-* files for that.
Up until now, we ignored these files for the most part, except if
a user configured such files, the profile could not contain any static
routes (or specify a route-table setting). This also worked together
with the dispatcher script "examples/dispatcher/10-ifcfg-rh-routes.sh".
We cannot now start taking over that file format for rules. It might
break existing setups, because we can never fully understand all rules as
they are understood by iproute2. Also, if a user has a rule/rule6 file and
uses NetworkManager successfully today, then clearly there is a script
in place to make that work. We must not break that when adding rules
support.
Hence, store routing rules as numbered "ROUTING_RULE_#" and
"ROUTING_RULE6_#" keys.
Note that we use different keys for IPv4 and IPv6. The main reason is
that the string format is mostly compatible with iproute2. That means,
you can take the value and pass it to `ip rule add`.
However, `ip rule add` only accepts IPv4 rules. For IPv6 rules, the user
needs to call `ip -6 rule add`. If we would use the same key for IPv4
and IPv6, then it would be hard to write a script to do this.
Also, nm_ip_routing_rule_from_string() does take the address family as
hint in this case. This makes
ROUTING_RULE_1="pref 1"
ROUTING_RULE6_1="pref 1"
automatically determine that address families. Otherwise, such
abbreviated forms would be not valid.
We have code in "shared/nm-utils" which are general purpose
helpers, independent of "libnm", "libnm-core", "clients" and "src".
We have shared code like "shared/nm-ethtool-utils.h" and
"shared/nm-meta-setting.h", which is statically linked, shared
code that contains libnm related helpers. But these helpers already
have a specific use (e.g. they are related to ethtool or NMSetting
metadata).
Add a general purpose helper that:
- depends (and extends) libnm-core
- contains unrelated helpers
- can be shared (meaning it will be statically linked).
- this code can be used by any library user of "libnm.so"
(nmcli, nm-applet) and by "libnm-core" itself. Thus, "src/"
and "libnm/" may also use this code indirectly, via "libnm-core/".
This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
Routing rules are unlike addresses or routes not tied to an interface.
NetworkManager thinks in terms of connection profiles. That works well
for addresses and routes, as one profile configures addresses and routes
for one device. For example, when activating a profile on a device, the
configuration does not interfere with the addresses/routes of other
devices. That is not the case for routing rules, which are global, netns-wide
entities.
When one connection profile specifies rules, then this per-device configuration
must be merged with the global configuration. And when a device disconnects later,
the rules must be removed.
Add a new NMPRulesManager API to track/untrack routing rules. Devices can
register/add there the routing rules they require. And the sync method will
apply the configuration. This is be implemented on top of NMPlatform's
caching API.
CC clients/nm_online-nm-online.o
In file included from ./shared/nm-default.h:311:0,
from clients/nm-online.c:34:
./libnm/NetworkManager.h:60:10: fatal error: nm-enum-types.h: No such file or directory
#include "nm-enum-types.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For now only add the core settings, no peers' data.
To support peers and the allowed-ips of the peers is more complicated
and will be done later. It's more complicated because these are nested
lists (allowed-ips) inside a list (peers). That is quite unusual and to
conveniently support that in D-Bus API, in keyfile format, in libnm,
and nmcli, is a effort.
Also, it's further complicated by the fact that each peer has a secret (the
preshared-key). Thus we probably need secret flags for each peer, which
is a novelty as well (until now we require a fixed set of secrets per
profile that is well known).
We named the types inconsistently:
- "p2p-wireless" ("libnm-core/nm-setting-p2p-wireless.h")
- "p2p" ("libnm/nm-p2p-peer.h")
- "p2p-wifi" ("src/devices/wifi/nm-device-p2p-wifi.h")
It seems to me, "libnm/nm-p2p-peer.h" should be qualified with a "Wi-Fi"
specific name. It's not just peer-to-peer, it's Wi-Fi P2P.
Yes, there is an inconsistency now, because there is already
"libnm/nm-access-point.h".
It seems to me (from looking at the internet), that the name "Wi-Fi P2P"
is more common than "P2P Wi-Fi" -- although both are used. There is also
the name "Wi-Fi Direct". But it's not clear which name should be
preferred here, so stick to "Wi-Fi P2P".
In this first commit only rename the files. The following commit will
rename the content.
It's not yet used, but it will be. We will need nm_sd_utils_unbase64mem()
to strictly validate WireGuard settings, which contain keys in base64 encoding.
Note that we also need a stub implementation for logging. This will do
nothing for all logging from "libnm-systemd-shared.a". This makes
sense because "libnm.so" as a library should not log directly. Also,
"libnm.so" will only use a small portion of "libnm-systemd-shared.a" which
doesn't log anything. Thus this code is unused and dropped by the linker
with "--gc-sections".
For better or worse, we already pull in large parts of systemd sources.
I need a base64 decode implementation (because glib's g_base64_decode()
cannot reject invalid encodings). Instead of coming up with my own or
copy-paste if from somewhere, reuse systemd's unbase64mem().
But for that, make systemd's basic bits an independent static library
first because I will need it in libnm-core.
This doesn't really change anything except making "libnm-systemd-core.la"
an indpendent static library that could be used from "libnm-core". We
shall still be mindful about which internal code of systemd we use, and only
access functionality that is exposed via "systemd/nm-sd-utils-shared.h".
We already import systemd code which is C11. To get this even
to build, we need workaround like patching import of <uchar.h>.
Also, the libraries from c-util and nettools are C11. We cannot even
compile them in C99 mode (and didn't do that either).
It's time to bump the version. We need C11 from now on (or better: gcc's
dialect of it).
Also, note that since nettools/nacd is not optional, we could not even
build NetworkManager without a C11 compiler. So, just use it everywhere.
In core ("src/"), we use "nm-logging.h" for all logging. This dispatches
for logging to syslog, glog or systemd-journald.
If we want to log from a shared component under "shared/", we need to
use a common logging function. Add "nm-utils/nm-logging-fwd.h" for
forward declaring the used logging mechaism.
The shared library will still need to link with "src/nm-logging.c"
or an alternative implementation, depending on whether it is used
inside core or not.
This will be our extension on top of <errno.h>.
We want to use (integer) error numbers, that can both
contain native errors from <errno.h> and our own defines,
both merge in one domain. That is, we will reserve a small
range of integers for our own defines (that hopefully won't
clash with errors from <errno.h>).
We can use this at places where GError is too cumbersome to use.
The advantage is, that our error numbers extend <errno.h> and can
be mixed.
This is what "src/platform/nm-netlink.h" already does with nl_errno(). Next,
the netlink errors from there will be merged into "nm-errno.h".
Also, platform has NMPlatformError, which are a distinct set of error
numbers. But these work differently in the sense that negative values
represent codes from <errno.h> and positive numbers are our own platform
specific defines. NMPlatformError will also be merged into "nm-errno.h".
"nm-errno.h" will unify the error handling of platform and netlink,
making it more similar to what we are used to from systemd, and give
room to extend it for our own purpose.
For P2P connections it makes sense to bind the connection to the status
of the operation that is being done. One example is that a wifi display
(miracast) P2P connection should be shut down when streaming fails for
some reason.
This new helper class allows binding a connection to the presence of a
DBus path meaning that it will be torn down if the process disappears.
Previously we would compile source files from shared/nm-utils
multiple times. That not only slows down compilation, but it makes it
confusing which project require exactly what.
Most of the files in shared/nm-utils are a mixed bag of utility
functions. Just build one libnm-utils-base library. Since the linker
will throw away unused parts, there is no problem that not every user
of libnm-utils-base needs everything.
Also add libnm-utils-udev, which cannot be part of libnm-utils-base as
it has an additional dependency on libudev.
Quote from `man NetworkManager.conf`:
When the default wired connection is deleted or saved to a new
persistent connection by a plugin, the device is added to a list in the
file /run/NetworkManager/no-auto-default.state to prevent creating
the default connection for that device again.
"/run" is obviously wrong. Fix it.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/33
We have a fork of a lot of useful systemd helper code.
However, until now we shyed away from using it aside from
the bits that we really need.
That means, although we have some really nice implementations
in our source-tree, we didn't use them. Either we were missing
them, or we had to re-implement them.
Add "nm-sd-utils.h" header to very carefully make internal
systemd API accessible to the rest of core.
This is not intended as a vehicle to access all of internal
API. Instead, this must be used with care, and only a hand picked
selection of functions must be exposed. Use with caution, but where it
makes sense.
"shared/nm-utils" is a loose collection of utility functions.
There is a certain aim that they can be used independently.
However, they also rely on each other.
Add a test that we can build a minimal shared library with
these tools, independent of libnm-core.
This is independent functionality that only depends on linux API
and glib.
Note how "nm-logging" uses this for getting the timestamps. This
makes "nm-logging.c" itself dependen on "src/nm-core-utils.c",
for little reason.
If the NetworkManager daemon has been stopped manually we don't want it
to be autostarted by a client request.
[lkundrak@v3.sk: The auto-activation is probably more surprising than useful.
Services that need NetworkManager API should depend on NetworkManager service
directly.
I have no idea what purpose does the D-Bus service file serve nowadays,
but it looks rather hacky (really, activating /bin/false) and the comment
in it suggests that the autoactivating behavior was not intended anyway.
Debian has been shipping this for quite some time and no complains have been
heard.]
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/230
NMAcdManager is a rather simple instance.
It does not need (thread-safe) ref-counting, in fact, having
it ref-counted makes it slighly ugly that we connect a signal,
but never bother to disconnect it (while the ref-counted instance
could outlife the signal subscriber).
We also don't need GObject signals. They have more overhead
and are less type-safe than a regular function pointers. Signals
would make sense, if there could be multiple independent listeners,
but that just doesn't make sense.
Implementing it as a plain struct is less lines of code, and less
runtime over head.
Also drop the possiblitiy to reset the NMAcdManager instance.
It wasn't needed and I think it was buggy because it wouldn't
reset the n-acd instance.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/213
Adapt the meson post-installation script to handle the $DESTDIR
variable supplied by user to specify the installation target
directory. While at it, convert the script to shell because it seems
simpler to me.
