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| author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2007-09-12 14:44:36 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:49:16 -0700 |
| commit | 8f4c1f9b049df3be11090f1c2c4738700302acae (patch) | |
| tree | 51271d32096e4419173072d120176b4428e52a11 /include/net | |
| parent | 9d5010db7ecfd6ec00119d3b185c4c0cd3265167 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-8f4c1f9b049df3be11090f1c2c4738700302acae.zip op-kernel-dev-8f4c1f9b049df3be11090f1c2c4738700302acae.tar.gz | |
[NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.
The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netlink.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index d7b824b..695e613 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -667,6 +667,15 @@ static inline int nla_padlen(int payload) } /** + * nla_type - attribute type + * @nla: netlink attribute + */ +static inline int nla_type(const struct nlattr *nla) +{ + return nla->nla_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK; +} + +/** * nla_data - head of payload * @nla: netlink attribute */ |
