kernel/linux.git/include/net/netlink.h, branch v3.13.3

netevent/netlink.h: Remove extern from function prototypes

2013-09-21T18:01:39+00:00

There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for function prototypes. Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

2012-09-10T19:30:41+00:00

It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: add signed types

2012-08-04T03:40:11+00:00

Signed types might be needed in NL communication from time to time (I need s32 in team driver), so add them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Delete all NLA_PUT*() macros.

2012-04-02T08:33:45+00:00

They were error prone due to an embedded goto, and the entire tree has been converted away from using them. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Add nla_put_le{16,32,64}() helpers.

2012-04-02T08:33:42+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Add nla_put_net{16,32,64}() helpers.

2012-04-02T08:33:41+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Add nla_put_be{16,32,64}() helpers.

2012-04-01T22:11:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.

2012-01-30T20:22:06+00:00

text data bss dec hex filename 8455963 532732 1810804 10799499 a4c98b vmlinux.o.before 8448899 532732 1810804 10792435 a4adf3 vmlinux.o This change also removes commented-out copy of __nlmsg_put which was last touched in 2005 with "Enable once all users have been converted" comment on top. Changes in v2: rediffed against net-next. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation

2011-11-04T21:48:23+00:00

The documentation for how the length of attributes is checked is wrong ("Exact length" isn't true, the policy checks are for "minimum length") and a bit misleading. Make it more complete and explain what really happens. Cc: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: advertise incomplete dumps

2011-06-22T20:09:45+00:00

Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville