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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-11-14 22:46:02 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-03 00:22:42 -0500
commit17c157c889f4b07258af6bfec9e4e9dcf3c00178 (patch)
treef17be049a40b5742ca7e67094d6a7063146568d5 /kernel
parent81878d27fdd297a33f3cfcf29483fe1abaf26dec (diff)
[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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/taskstats.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index faa5239813ce..d3d28919d4b4 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -85,13 +85,9 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
85 int seq = get_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum)++; 85 int seq = get_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum)++;
86 put_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum); 86 put_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum);
87 87
88 reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq, 88 reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq, &family, 0, cmd);
89 family.id, 0, 0,
90 cmd, family.version);
91 } else 89 } else
92 reply = genlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_pid, info->snd_seq, 90 reply = genlmsg_put_reply(skb, info, &family, 0, cmd);
93 family.id, 0, 0,
94 cmd, family.version);
95 if (reply == NULL) { 91 if (reply == NULL) {
96 nlmsg_free(skb); 92 nlmsg_free(skb);
97 return -EINVAL; 93 return -EINVAL;