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[GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headers

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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>
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Thomas Graf
2006-11-14 19:46:02 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 81878d27fd
commit 17c157c889
7 changed files with 51 additions and 95 deletions
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kernel/taskstats.c
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@@ -85,13 +85,9 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
int seq = get_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum)++;
put_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum);
reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq,
family.id, 0, 0,
cmd, family.version);
reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq, &family, 0, cmd);
} else
reply = genlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_pid, info->snd_seq,
family.id, 0, 0,
cmd, family.version);
reply = genlmsg_put_reply(skb, info, &family, 0, cmd);
if (reply == NULL) {
nlmsg_free(skb);
return -EINVAL;