There are more than enough calls doing string manipulations to deserve
its own files, hence do something about it.
This patch also sorts the #include blocks of all files that needed to be
updated, according to the sorting suggestions from CODING_STYLE. Since
pretty much every file needs our string manipulation functions this
effectively means that most files have sorted #include blocks now.
Also touches a few unrelated include files.
It can be useful to know the destination address of a LLDP frame
because it determines the scope of propagation of the frame and thus
this information be used to know whether the neighbor is connected to
the same physical link.
See clause 7.1 of IEEE Std 802.1AB-2009.
This patch removes includes that are not used. The removals were found with
include-what-you-use which checks if any of the symbols from a header is
in use.
As a malloc0 could fail, doing a strncpy without checking could
cause issues. Adding an assert should be good enough and in line
with other similar routines in the code.
Found with Coverity Fixes: CID#1261402
This patch introduces LLDP support to networkd. it implements the
receiver side of the protocol.
The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is an industry-standard,
vendor-neutral method to allow networked devices to advertise
capabilities, identity, and other information onto a LAN. The Layer 2
protocol, detailed in IEEE 802.1AB-2005.LLDP allows network devices
that operate at the lower layers of a protocol stack (such as
Layer 2 bridges and switches) to learn some of the capabilities
and characteristics of LAN devices available to higher
layer protocols.
Jan Engelhardt
Lennart Poettering
Beniamino Galvani
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
Philippe De Swert
David Herrmann
Susant Sahani