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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-11-15 04:46:02 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-03 06:22:42 +0100
commit17c157c889f4b07258af6bfec9e4e9dcf3c00178 (patch)
treef17be049a40b5742ca7e67094d6a7063146568d5 /net/netlink/genetlink.c
parent[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests (diff)
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[GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headers
By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink and generic netlink headers is simplified. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 0249a56a9aad..8903ef93db5b 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -384,6 +384,13 @@ static void genl_rcv(struct sock *sk, int len)
* Controller
**************************************************************************/
+static struct genl_family genl_ctrl = {
+ .id = GENL_ID_CTRL,
+ .name = "nlctrl",
+ .version = 0x1,
+ .maxattr = CTRL_ATTR_MAX,
+};
+
static int ctrl_fill_info(struct genl_family *family, u32 pid, u32 seq,
u32 flags, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 cmd)
{
@@ -392,8 +399,7 @@ static int ctrl_fill_info(struct genl_family *family, u32 pid, u32 seq,
void *hdr;
int idx = 1;
- hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, GENL_ID_CTRL, 0, flags, cmd,
- family->version);
+ hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, &genl_ctrl, flags, cmd);
if (hdr == NULL)
return -1;
@@ -562,13 +568,6 @@ static struct genl_ops genl_ctrl_ops = {
.policy = ctrl_policy,
};
-static struct genl_family genl_ctrl = {
- .id = GENL_ID_CTRL,
- .name = "nlctrl",
- .version = 0x1,
- .maxattr = CTRL_ATTR_MAX,
-};
-
static int __init genl_init(void)
{
int i, err;