This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: Make nlmsg_find_attr take a const nlmsghdr*.
to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netlink-make-nlmsg_find_attr-take-a-const-nlmsghdr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 6b8c92ba07287578718335ce409de8e8d7217e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nelson Elhage <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:35:40 +0000
Subject: netlink: Make nlmsg_find_attr take a const nlmsghdr*.
From: Nelson Elhage <[email protected]>
commit 6b8c92ba07287578718335ce409de8e8d7217e40 upstream.
This will let us use it on a nlmsghdr stored inside a netlink_callback.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/net/netlink.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static inline int nlmsg_parse(const stru
*
* Returns the first attribute which matches the specified type.
*/
-static inline struct nlattr *nlmsg_find_attr(struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+static inline struct nlattr *nlmsg_find_attr(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
int hdrlen, int attrtype)
{
return nla_find(nlmsg_attrdata(nlh, hdrlen),
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from
[email protected] are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/netlink-make-nlmsg_find_attr-take-a-const-nlmsghdr.patch
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