A Protocol Independent Hierarchical FIB (VPP-352)

Main Enhancements:
 - Protocol Independent FIB API
 - Hierarchical FIB entries. Dynamic recursive route resolution.
 - Extranet Support.
 - Integration of IP and MPLS forwarding.
 - Separation of FIB and Adjacency databases.
 - Data-Plane Object forwarding model.

Change-Id: I52dc815c0d0aa8b493e3cf6b978568f3cc82296c
Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ADJ_TYPES_H__
+#define __ADJ_TYPES_H__
+
+#include <vnet/vnet.h>
+
+/**
+ * @brief An index for adjacencies.
+ * Alas 'C' is not typesafe enough to b0rk when a u32 is used instead of
+ * an adi_index_t. However, for us humans, we can glean much more intent
+ * from the declaration
+ *  foo bar(adj_index_t t);
+ * than we can from
+ *  foo bar(u32 t);
+ */
+typedef u32 adj_index_t; 
+
+/**
+ * @brief Invalid ADJ index - used when no adj is known
+ * likewise blazoned capitals INVALID speak volumes where ~0 does not.
+ */
+#define ADJ_INDEX_INVALID ((u32)~0)
+
+#endif