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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: change return-value logic of
 netlink_broadcast()
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:57:00 -0800 (PST)
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:13:03 +0100

> Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
> messages at all were delivered:
> 
> 1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
> 2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
>    failure, return -ENOBUFS.
> 3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.
> 
> With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
> messages to the listeners have failed:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Looks great, applied, thanks Pablo.