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| author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2006-11-15 06:44:52 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-12-03 08:22:40 +0300 |
| commit | 3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1 (patch) | |
| tree | a6fc7ea0605b18c47b157cc9c168c642c365cd0c /include/net/genetlink.h | |
| parent | cfb6eeb4c860592edd123fdea908d23c6ad1c7dc (diff) | |
| download | linux-3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1.tar.xz | |
[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages
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 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index b619314218a6..2010465fa7d4 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -187,4 +187,15 @@ static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload) return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload)); } +/** + * genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message + * @payload: size of the message payload + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. + */ +static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags) +{ + return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags); +} + + #endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */ |