From: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:24:39 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usage
X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~38824
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb0ba6bd021248b6bdc58a7b1213a55a6776a38a;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usage

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>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 805de50..8c22872 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -150,4 +150,24 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
 	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 */