NetworkManager/src
Thomas Haller a1ab9d9e1c
libnm: use NMRefString for nm_connection_get_path()
NMConnection is an interface, implemented by NMSimpleConnection and
NMRemoteConnection.

For the most part, an NMConnection is only the content of the profile
(the settings). The "path" of the connection refers to the D-Bus path,
and wouldn't really make sense of the NMConnection interface or the
NMSimpleConnection type.

As such, the daemon (which only uses NMConnection and
NMSimpleConnection) never sets the path. Only libnm does.

NMClient uses NMRefString extensively for the D-Bus interface and the
path is already internalized. Take advantage of that. It is very likely,
that we are able to share the path instance in libnm at which point it
makes sense to use NMRefString.

Also, during nm_simple_connection_new_clone(), we can just take another
reference instead of cloning the string.
2022-10-06 13:43:33 +02:00
..
c-list c-list: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-list' 2022-07-19 09:02:36 +02:00
c-rbtree modules: patch meson subprojects to use local dependencies 2022-07-25 10:27:33 +02:00
c-siphash modules: patch meson subprojects to use local dependencies 2022-07-25 10:27:33 +02:00
c-stdaux c-stdaux: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-stdaux' 2022-07-25 10:29:09 +02:00
contrib
core merge: branch 'lr/master-uuid' 2022-10-05 11:42:34 +02:00
libnm-base glib-aux: swap arguments for nm_array_find_bsearch() 2022-09-28 13:30:44 +02:00
libnm-client-aux-extern
libnm-client-impl libnm: use NMRefString for nm_connection_get_path() 2022-10-06 13:43:33 +02:00
libnm-client-public libnm: undeprecate nm_remote_connection_get_secrets() 2022-08-25 15:27:35 +02:00
libnm-client-test build/meson: add dependency libnm_client_public_dep for "libnm-client-test" 2022-05-04 08:56:58 +02:00
libnm-core-aux-extern
libnm-core-aux-intern glib-aux: swap arguments for nm_array_find_bsearch() 2022-09-28 13:30:44 +02:00
libnm-core-impl libnm: use NMRefString for nm_connection_get_path() 2022-10-06 13:43:33 +02:00
libnm-core-intern libnm: use NMRefString for nm_connection_get_path() 2022-10-06 13:43:33 +02:00
libnm-core-public libnm,core: support "bond.balance-slb" option 2022-10-04 12:37:41 +02:00
libnm-crypto crypto: support EC private keys 2022-08-04 09:46:06 +02:00
libnm-glib-aux glib-aux: reorder comparison in nm_ref_string_equal_str() 2022-10-06 13:43:33 +02:00
libnm-log-core glib-aux: drop nm_str_buf_init() for NM_STR_BUF_INIT() 2022-05-09 19:18:30 +02:00
libnm-log-null
libnm-platform bond: fix arp_all_target option when arp_interval is disabled 2022-09-27 13:52:22 +02:00
libnm-std-aux std-aux/trivial: fix typo in code comment 2022-09-28 13:30:45 +02:00
libnm-systemd-core systemd: merge branch systemd into main 2022-10-05 09:21:28 +02:00
libnm-systemd-shared systemd: merge branch systemd into main 2022-10-05 09:21:28 +02:00
libnm-udev-aux
libnmc-base libnmc/trivial: rename _device_state_to_string() function 2022-07-21 22:03:33 +02:00
libnmc-setting tools: preserve newlines and indentation in "generate-docs-nm-property-infos.py" 2022-10-06 13:40:29 +02:00
libnmt-newt newt: fix validity evaluation for stacks 2022-09-28 09:09:09 +02:00
linux-headers all: add src/nm-compat-headers for patching included system headers 2022-09-23 11:43:33 +02:00
n-acd modules: patch meson subprojects to use local dependencies 2022-07-25 10:27:33 +02:00
n-dhcp4 n-dhcp4: re-import git-subtree for 'src/n-dhcp4' 2022-08-11 14:47:04 +02:00
nm-cloud-setup cloud-setup,glib-aux: use NULL instead of g_direct_equal() for hash tables 2022-08-31 09:47:48 +02:00
nm-compat-headers all: add src/nm-compat-headers for patching included system headers 2022-09-23 11:43:33 +02:00
nm-daemon-helper daemon-helper: include "libnm-std-aux/nm-default-std.h" as first in "nm-daemon-helper.c" 2022-05-09 19:20:19 +02:00
nm-dispatcher all: reformat with clang-format (clang-tools-extra-14.0.0-1.fc36) and update gitlab-ci to f36 2022-07-06 11:06:53 +02:00
nm-initrd-generator all: drop nm_uuid_generate_from_strings_v3() 2022-10-03 17:57:53 +02:00
nm-online all: reformat with clang-format (clang-tools-extra-14.0.0-1.fc36) and update gitlab-ci to f36 2022-07-06 11:06:53 +02:00
nm-priv-helper all: drop redundant includes 2022-05-09 19:20:18 +02:00
nmcli tools: preserve newlines and indentation in "generate-docs-nm-property-infos.py" 2022-10-06 13:40:29 +02:00
nmtui nmtui: add MACsec support 2022-09-28 09:09:09 +02:00
tests tests: fix "test-client.py" for early python3 versions 2022-08-26 00:00:14 +02:00
meson.build Squashed 'src/c-stdaux/' changes from 99fe83cd5698..1407a1fb2754 2022-07-06 10:15:51 +02:00
README.md

src/

Most of the subdirectories are static helper libraries, which get linked into one of the final build artifacts (like libnm, nmcli or NetworkManager). Static libraries are internal API.

The only public API is libnm, which is a shared library provided client implementations.

Our own clients (like nmcli and nmtui) also use libnm, the shared library. But they also use additional static helper libraries.

The daemon statically links against a part of libnm, the part that provides connection profiles. That is libnm-core. libnm-core is thus statically linked with libnm and the daemon. It does not get linked by clients that already link with libnm (like nmtui).

Read the individual README.md files in the subdirectories for details:

Directory Description
core/ the NetworkManager daemon
nmcli/ nmcli application, a command line client for NetworkManager
nmtui/ nmtui application, a text UI client for NetworkManager
nm-cloud-setup/ service to automatically configure NetworkManager in cloud environment
nm-initrd-generator/ generates NetworkManager configuration by parsing kernel command line options for dracut/initrd
nm-dispatcher/ NetworkManager-dispatcher service to run user scripts
nm-online/ application which checks whether NetworkManager is done, for implementing NetworkManager-wait-online.service
nm-priv-helper/ internal service for privileged operations
nm-daemon-helper/ internal helper binary spawned by NetworkManager
libnm-std-aux/ internal helper library for standard C
libnm-glib-aux/ internal helper library for glib
libnm-log-null/ internal helper library with dummy (null) logging backend
libnm-log-core/ internal helper library with logging backend (syslog) used by daemon
libnm-base/ internal helper library with base definitions
libnm-platform/ internal helper library for netlink and other platform/kernel API
libnm-udev-aux/ internal helper library for libudev
libnm-core-public/ public API of libnm (libnm-core part)
libnm-core-intern/ internal API of libnm-core, used by libnm and daemon
libnm-core-impl/ implementation of libnm-core
libnm-core-aux-intern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (used by libnm-core itself)
libnm-core-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (not used by libnm-core)
libnm-client-public/ public API of libnm (NMClient part)
libnm-client-impl/ implementation of libnm (NMClient)
libnm-client-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm (not used by libnm itself)
libnmc-base/ internal helper library for libnm clients
libnmc-setting/ internal helper library for setting connection profiles (used by nmcli)
libnmt-newt/ internal helper library for libnewt for nmtui
linux-headers/ extra Linux kernel UAPI headers
contrib/ sources that are not used by NetworkManager itself
tests/ unit tests that are not specific to one of the other directories
libnm-client-test/ internal helper library with test utils for libnm
c-list/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive, doubly linked list
c-rbtree/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive Red-Black Tree
c-siphash/ fork of c-util helper library for SIPHash24
c-stdaux/ fork of c-util general purpose helpers for standard C
n-acd/ fork of nettools IPv4 ACD library
n-dhcp4/ fork of nettools DHCPv4 library
libnm-systemd-core/ fork of systemd code as network library
libnm-systemd-shared/ fork of systemd code as general purpose library