There exists a possibility that an end operator has choosen
to compile FRR on an extremely old KERNEL that does not support
the SOL_NETLINK sockopt call. If so let's note it for them
instead of stuff silently not working.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@nvidia.com>
snl.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
snl.nl_groups = groups;
-#if defined SOL_NETLINK
if (ext_group_size) {
uint8_t i;
for (i = 0; i < ext_group_size; i++) {
+#if defined SOL_NETLINK
ret = setsockopt(sock, SOL_NETLINK,
NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP,
&ext_groups[i],
ext_groups[i],
safe_strerror(errno), errno);
}
+#else
+ zlog_notice(
+ "Unable to use NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP via SOL_NETLINK for %s(%u) since the linux kernel does not support the socket option",
+ group2str(ext_groups[i]),
+ ext_groups[i]);
+#endif
}
}
-#endif
/* Bind the socket to the netlink structure for anything. */
ret = bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&snl, sizeof(snl));