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DateTue, 2 May 2006 11:46:49 +0530
FromBalbir Singh <>
Subject[Patch 4/8] Utilities for genetlink usage
genetlink-utils.patch

Two utilities for simplifying usage of NETLINK_GENERIC
interface.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
---
 include/net/genetlink.h |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/net/genetlink.h~genetlink-utils include/net/genetlink.h
--- linux-2.6.17-rc3/include/net/genetlink.h~genetlink-utils	2006-05-02 07:35:15.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc3-balbir/include/net/genetlink.h	2006-05-02 07:35:52.000000000 +0530
@@ -150,4 +150,24 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct
 	return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
 }
 
+/**
+ * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
+ */
+static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+	return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_len - length of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink message header
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
+							NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+	return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
 #endif	/* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */
_
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