add osmo_sockaddr_str API

For handling RTP IP addresses and ports, osmo-mgw, osmo-bsc and osmo-msc
so far have their own separate shims and code duplication around
inet_ntoa(), htons(), sockaddr conversions etc. Unify and standardize
with this common API.

In the MGW endpoint FSM that was introduced in osmo-bsc and which I
would like to re-use for osmo-msc (upcoming patch moving that to
osmo-mgw), it has turned out that using char* IP address and uint16_t
port number types are a convenient common denominator for logging,
MGCP message composition and GSM48. Ongoing osmo-msc work also uses this
for MNCC.

This is of course potentially useful for any other IP+port combinations
besides RTP stream handling.

Needless to say that most current implementations will probably stay
with their current own conversion code for a long time; for current
osmo-{bsc,msc,mgw} work (MGW endpoint FSM) though, I would like to move
to this API here.

Change-Id: Id617265337f09dfb6ddfe111ef5e578cd3dc9f63
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tree: 2d7553c002f684e8f2b76a4682093e29378271ac
  1. contrib/
  2. debian/
  3. doc/
  4. include/
  5. m4/
  6. src/
  7. tests/
  8. utils/
  9. .gitignore
  10. .gitreview
  11. .mailmap
  12. configure.ac
  13. COPYING
  14. Doxyfile.codec.in
  15. Doxyfile.coding.in
  16. Doxyfile.core.in
  17. Doxyfile.ctrl.in
  18. Doxyfile.gb.in
  19. Doxyfile.gsm.in
  20. Doxyfile.vty.in
  21. git-version-gen
  22. libosmocodec.pc.in
  23. libosmocoding.pc.in
  24. libosmocore.pc.in
  25. libosmoctrl.pc.in
  26. libosmogb.pc.in
  27. libosmogsm.pc.in
  28. libosmosim.pc.in
  29. libosmovty.pc.in
  30. Makefile.am
  31. osmo-release.mk
  32. osmo-release.sh
  33. README.md
  34. TODO-RELEASE
README.md

libosmocore - set of Osmocom core libraries

This repository contains a set of C-language libraries that form the core infrastructure of many Osmocom Open Source Mobile Communications projects.

Historically, a lot of this code was developed as part of the OpenBSC project, but which are of a more generic nature and thus useful to (at least) other programs that we develop in the sphere of Free Software / Open Source mobile communications.

There is no clear scope of it. We simply move all shared code between the various Osmocom projects in this library to avoid code duplication.

The libosmcoore.git repository build multiple libraries:

  • libosmocore contains some general-purpose functions like select-loop abstraction, message buffers, timers, linked lists
  • libosmovty contains routines related to the interactive command-line interface called VTY
  • libosmogsm contains definitions and helper code related to GSM protocols
  • libosmoctrl contains a shared implementation of the Osmocom control interface
  • libosmogb contains an implementation of the Gb interface with its NS/BSSGP protocols
  • libosmocodec contains an implementation of GSM voice codecs
  • libosmocoding contains an implementation of GSM channel coding
  • libosmosim contains infrastructure to interface SIM/UICC/USIM cards
  • libosmotrau contains encoding/decoding functions for A-bis TRAU frames

Homepage

The official homepage of the project is https://osmocom.org/projects/libosmocore/wiki/Libosmocore

GIT Repository

You can clone from the official libosmocore.git repository using

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git

There is a cgit interface at http://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore/

Documentation

Doxygen-generated API documentation is generated during the build process, but also available online for each of the sub-libraries at http://ftp.osmocom.org/api/latest/libosmocore/

Mailing List

Discussions related to libosmocore are happening on the openbsc@lists.osmocom.org mailing list, please see https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/openbsc for subscription options and the list archive.

Please observe the Osmocom Mailing List Rules when posting.

Contributing

Our coding standards are described at https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Coding_standards

We us a gerrit based patch submission/review process for managing contributions. Please see https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Gerrit for more details

The current patch queue for libosmocore can be seen at https://gerrit.osmocom.org/#/q/project:libosmocore+status:open