From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
johannes.berg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: add nl_set_extack_cookie_u64()
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180823.084510.864066255490001088.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823084813.5727-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:48:13 +0200
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> Add a helper function nl_set_extack_cookie_u64() to use a u64 as
> the netlink extended ACK cookie, to avoid having to open-code it
> in any users of the cookie.
>
> A u64 should be sufficient for most subsystems though we allow
> for up to 20 bytes right now. This also matches the cookies in
> nl80211 where I intend to use this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Feel free to merge this in your wireless tree since the first
user will be there.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-23 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 8:48 [PATCH] netlink: add nl_set_extack_cookie_u64() Johannes Berg
2018-08-23 15:45 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-08-23 16:39 ` Johannes Berg
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