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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-11-14 22:45:27 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-03 00:22:41 -0500
commit81878d27fdd297a33f3cfcf29483fe1abaf26dec (patch)
tree4ce8183643abce3ec5fe5fdab0c9104204e88e6e /include
parent3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1 (diff)
[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests
A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to address the source of the original request. 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 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 2010465fa7d4..797c18b5041f 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
150} 150}
151 151
152/** 152/**
153 * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
154 * @skb: netlink message to be sent back
155 * @info: receiver information
156 */
157static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
158{
159 return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid);
160}
161
162/**
153 * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload 163 * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
154 * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header 164 * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
155 */ 165 */