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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-11-14 19:45:27 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-02 21:22:41 -0800
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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>
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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
*/