[GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headers
By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding
genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink
and generic netlink headers is simplified.
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>
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index faa5239..d3d2891 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -85,13 +85,9 @@
int seq = get_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum)++;
put_cpu_var(taskstats_seqnum);
- reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq,
- family.id, 0, 0,
- cmd, family.version);
+ reply = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq, &family, 0, cmd);
} else
- reply = genlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_pid, info->snd_seq,
- family.id, 0, 0,
- cmd, family.version);
+ reply = genlmsg_put_reply(skb, info, &family, 0, cmd);
if (reply == NULL) {
nlmsg_free(skb);
return -EINVAL;
