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author | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2011-11-10 19:14:37 -0800 |
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committer | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2011-12-03 09:35:05 -0800 |
commit | 263ba61d3b19508dfb003c215ec5d23f882b4f87 (patch) | |
tree | 1f00fe8aeaff938b6e6706d145f761c5990fc28e /include/net/genetlink.h | |
parent | 340e8dc1fb4032b6c8334c9bff20b2aec42ecfd8 (diff) | |
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genetlink: Add genl_notify()
Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication
between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used
for sending notification back to userspace.
genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock
instead of rtnl.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 82d8d09faa44..7db32995ccd3 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ extern int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_family *family, struct genl_multicast_group *grp); extern void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family *family, struct genl_multicast_group *grp); +extern void genl_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid, + u32 group, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, gfp_t flags); /** * genlmsg_put - Add generic netlink header to netlink message |