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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: add nl_set_extack_cookie_u64()
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
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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>