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| author | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2024-05-05 00:07:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2024-05-05 00:07:42 +0200 |
| commit | a9c892f6640668b93848584d246280c4d33cc025 (patch) | |
| tree | 914226b8c8fffd1a8e101e71d361d6d126322c12 /src/libnm-platform/README.md | |
| parent | f03946fe0cdd73041658be1009f06f0e287c4b80 (diff) | |
| parent | 34bb501be08aa2b313d88e67d6e0a7e0a3f9cfa6 (diff) | |
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.47.90'
Update to upstream version '1.47.90' with Debian dir fca683c43690f5e2bfc191d3d528666444bec54b
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diff --git a/src/libnm-platform/README.md b/src/libnm-platform/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c8e7cf76 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/libnm-platform/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +libnm-platform +============== + +A static helper library that provides `NMPlatform` and other utils. +This is NetworkManager's internal netlink library, but also contains +helpers for sysfs, ethtool and other kernel APIs. + +`NMPlaform` is also a cache of objects of the netlink API: `NMPCache` +and `NMPObject`. These objects are used throughout NetworkManager +also for generally tracking information about these types. For example, +`NMPlatformIP4Address` (the public part of a certain type of `NMPObject`) +is not only used to track platform addresses from netlink in the cache, +but to track information about IPv4 addresses in general. + +This depends on the following helper libraries + + - [../libnm-std-aux/](../libnm-std-aux/) + - [../libnm-base/](../libnm-base/) + - [../libnm-glib-aux/](../libnm-glib-aux/) + - [../libnm-udev-aux/](../libnm-udev-aux/) + - [../libnm-log-core/](../libnm-log-core/) + - [../linux-headers/](../linux-headers/) |