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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-12-05 14:37:56 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>2006-12-05 14:37:56 +0000
commit4c1ac1b49122b805adfa4efc620592f68dccf5db (patch)
tree87557f4bc2fd4fe65b7570489c2f610c45c0adcd /include/net/netlink.h
parentc4028958b6ecad064b1a6303a6a5906d4fe48d73 (diff)
parentd916faace3efc0bf19fe9a615a1ab8fa1a24cd93 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h21
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index ce5cba19c39..fd75fd65d59 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -500,14 +500,15 @@ static inline struct nlmsghdr *nlmsg_put_answer(struct sk_buff *skb,
/**
* nlmsg_new - Allocate a new netlink message
- * @size: maximum size of message
+ * @payload: size of the message payload
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
*
- * Use NLMSG_GOODSIZE if size isn't know and you need a good default size.
+ * Use NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE if the size of the payload isn't known
+ * and a good default is needed.
*/
-static inline struct sk_buff *nlmsg_new(int size, gfp_t flags)
+static inline struct sk_buff *nlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags)
{
- return alloc_skb(size, flags);
+ return alloc_skb(nlmsg_total_size(payload), flags);
}
/**
@@ -828,6 +829,9 @@ static inline int nla_put_msecs(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype,
#define NLA_PUT_U16(skb, attrtype, value) \
NLA_PUT_TYPE(skb, u16, attrtype, value)
+#define NLA_PUT_LE16(skb, attrtype, value) \
+ NLA_PUT_TYPE(skb, __le16, attrtype, value)
+
#define NLA_PUT_U32(skb, attrtype, value) \
NLA_PUT_TYPE(skb, u32, attrtype, value)
@@ -874,6 +878,15 @@ static inline u16 nla_get_u16(struct nlattr *nla)
}
/**
+ * nla_get_le16 - return payload of __le16 attribute
+ * @nla: __le16 netlink attribute
+ */
+static inline __le16 nla_get_le16(struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+ return *(__le16 *) nla_data(nla);
+}
+
+/**
* nla_get_u8 - return payload of u8 attribute
* @nla: u8 netlink attribute
*/