netdev - gre: minor cleanups in netlink interface

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:04:52 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: gre: minor cleanups in netlink interface

Some minor cleanups, there doesn't seem to be a reason for not
using the typeful helpers everywhere.

I noticed the interface expects to always get a full configuration
on change requests. Is there are particular reason for not
supporting incremental changes, lets say

"ip link change dev gre0 type gre remote <new remote>"

? It looks easy enough to change, so I could take care of this.

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