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authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>2015-12-15 15:41:37 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-15 23:25:20 -0500
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parent3502cad73c4bbf8f6365d539e814159275252c59 (diff)
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netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in the done callback. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 1b6b6dcb018d..43c0e771f417 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info *info, struct net *net)
* @flags: flags
* @policy: attribute validation policy
* @doit: standard command callback
+ * @start: start callback for dumps
* @dumpit: callback for dumpers
* @done: completion callback for dumps
* @ops_list: operations list
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ struct genl_ops {
const struct nla_policy *policy;
int (*doit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct genl_info *info);
+ int (*start)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*dumpit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);