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authorAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>2020-05-10 21:12:35 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-05-10 12:28:41 -0700
commit0df960f14e17e55e68dfd1342f063d17dbcc6107 (patch)
tree1ed4ed615973005db9096f0f0a2a0950b73fed2f /net/ethtool
parentb28efb930ba5a7c263826fe02e13e1b6eadb5559 (diff)
downloadlinux-0df960f14e17e55e68dfd1342f063d17dbcc6107.tar.bz2
net: ethtool: Make helpers public
Make some helpers for building ethtool netlink messages available outside the compilation unit, so they can be used for building messages which are not simple get/set. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethtool')
-rw-r--r--net/ethtool/netlink.c4
-rw-r--r--net/ethtool/netlink.h2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index b9c9ddf408fe..87bc02da74bc 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ err:
return NULL;
}
-static void *ethnl_bcastmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 cmd)
+void *ethnl_bcastmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 cmd)
{
return genlmsg_put(skb, 0, ++ethnl_bcast_seq, &ethtool_genl_family, 0,
cmd);
}
-static int ethnl_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+int ethnl_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
return genlmsg_multicast_netns(&ethtool_genl_family, dev_net(dev), skb,
0, ETHNL_MCGRP_MONITOR, GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.h b/net/ethtool/netlink.h
index bd7df592db2f..b0eb5d920099 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.h
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.h
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ int ethnl_fill_reply_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
struct sk_buff *ethnl_reply_init(size_t payload, struct net_device *dev, u8 cmd,
u16 hdr_attrtype, struct genl_info *info,
void **ehdrp);
+void *ethnl_bcastmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 cmd);
+int ethnl_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
/**
* ethnl_strz_size() - calculate attribute length for fixed size string