user/sven/linux.git/include/net/genetlink.h, branch v3.2

netlink: advertise incomplete dumps

2011-06-22T20:09:45Z

Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

treewide: fix a few typos in comments

2011-05-10T08:16:21Z

- kenrel -> kernel - whetehr -> whether - ttt -> tt - sss -> ss Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel to accept a NULL argument

2011-02-04T04:47:08Z

nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity, this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second argument as well. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooks

2010-10-05T17:35:30Z

Each family may have some amount of boilerplate locking code that applies to most, or even all, commands. This allows a family to handle such things in a more generic way, by allowing it to a) include private flags in each operation b) specify a pre_doit hook that is called, before an operation's doit() callback and may return an error directly, c) specify a post_doit hook that can undo locking or similar things done by pre_doit, and finally d) include two private pointers in each info struct passed between all these operations including doit(). (It's two because I'll need two in nl80211 -- can be extended.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

net: CONFIG_NET_NS reduction

2010-06-02T12:16:23Z

Use read_pnet() and write_pnet() to reduce number of ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup include/net

2009-11-04T13:06:25Z

This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: make netns aware

2009-07-12T21:03:27Z

This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No generic netlink families except for the controller family are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by one and then set the family->netnsok member to true. A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace, for example when it applies to an object that lives in that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns() to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects that do not have an associated netns). The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast the message in just init_net, which is currently correct for all generic netlink families since they only work in init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all net namespaces because they do not care about the netns at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns aware in some way. After this patch families can easily decide whether or not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many genl families us it for objects not related to networking and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but that will have to be done on a per family basis. Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart problem where network namespaces could be used, genl families and multicast groups are numbered globally and I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces for those families that do not care about netns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()

2009-05-21T23:50:22Z

This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste occurrences in following patches. Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Improve returned error codes

2008-06-03T23:36:54Z

Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and nla_nest_cancel() void functions. Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not big enough. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.

2007-07-18T22:47:52Z

Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Patrick McHardy Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Signed-off-by: David S. Miller