From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] genetlink: introduce pre/post methods Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:33:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090218.173334.110224475.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1234515865.4204.16.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tgraf@redhat.com To: johannes@sipsolutions.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48756 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbZBSBdu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:33:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1234515865.4204.16.camel@johannes.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:04:25 +0100 > Sometimes doit/dumpit callbacks for a given family consist > of quite a bit of boilerplate code, for example locking or > generic sanity checks on messages. > > These methods allow writing the boilerplate code just once > instead of copying it into all handlers. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg I'm fine with this: Acked-by: David S. Miller Feel free to toss it into the wireless tree.