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Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 46 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index 1d3dd30099df..eed4c6a8afc0 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -384,6 +384,52 @@ errout: } /** + * genl_register_family_with_ops - register a generic netlink family + * @family: generic netlink family + * @ops: operations to be registered + * @n_ops: number of elements to register + * + * Registers the specified family and operations from the specified table. + * Only one family may be registered with the same family name or identifier. + * + * The family id may equal GENL_ID_GENERATE causing an unique id to + * be automatically generated and assigned. + * + * Either a doit or dumpit callback must be specified for every registered + * operation or the function will fail. Only one operation structure per + * command identifier may be registered. + * + * See include/net/genetlink.h for more documenation on the operations + * structure. + * + * This is equivalent to calling genl_register_family() followed by + * genl_register_ops() for every operation entry in the table taking + * care to unregister the family on error path. + * + * Return 0 on success or a negative error code. + */ +int genl_register_family_with_ops(struct genl_family *family, + struct genl_ops *ops, size_t n_ops) +{ + int err, i; + + err = genl_register_family(family); + if (err) + return err; + + for (i = 0; i < n_ops; ++i, ++ops) { + err = genl_register_ops(family, ops); + if (err) + goto err_out; + } + return 0; +err_out: + genl_unregister_family(family); + return err; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_register_family_with_ops); + +/** * genl_unregister_family - unregister generic netlink family * @family: generic netlink family * |