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| author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2006-11-14 19:45:27 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-12-02 21:22:41 -0800 |
| commit | 81878d27fdd297a33f3cfcf29483fe1abaf26dec (patch) | |
| tree | 4ce8183643abce3ec5fe5fdab0c9104204e88e6e /include/net/genetlink.h | |
| parent | 3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1 (diff) | |
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[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/net/genetlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 10 |
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) } /** + * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request + * @skb: netlink message to be sent back + * @info: receiver information + */ +static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) +{ + return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid); +} + +/** * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header */ |
