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| author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2006-11-15 04:46:02 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-12-03 06:22:42 +0100 |
| commit | 17c157c889f4b07258af6bfec9e4e9dcf3c00178 (patch) | |
| tree | f17be049a40b5742ca7e67094d6a7063146568d5 /net/netlink | |
| parent | [GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests (diff) | |
| download | linux-17c157c889f4b07258af6bfec9e4e9dcf3c00178.tar.xz linux-17c157c889f4b07258af6bfec9e4e9dcf3c00178.zip | |
[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')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 17 |
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; |