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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 /net/netlink | |
| parent | 340e8dc1fb4032b6c8334c9bff20b2aec42ecfd8 (diff) | |
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 'net/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index 482fa571b4e..8a36599d355 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -946,3 +946,16 @@ int genlmsg_multicast_allns(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, unsigned int group, return genlmsg_mcast(skb, pid, group, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(genlmsg_multicast_allns); + +void genl_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid, u32 group, + struct nlmsghdr *nlh, gfp_t flags) +{ + struct sock *sk = net->genl_sock; + int report = 0; + + if (nlh) + report = nlmsg_report(nlh); + + nlmsg_notify(sk, skb, pid, group, report, flags); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_notify); |