netdev - Re: [PATCH] phonet netlink: allow multiple messages per skb in route dump

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sakari.ailus@...ia.com,
	courmisch@...il.com, johannes.berg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phonet netlink: allow multiple messages per skb in
 route dump

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:15:24 +0100

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> My previous patch to this file changed the code to be bug-compatible
> towards userspace. Unless userspace (which I wasn't able to find)
> implements the dump reader by hand in a wrong way, this isn't needed.
> If it uses libnl or similar code putting multiple messages into a
> single SKB is far more efficient.
> 
> Change the code to do this. While at it, also clean it up and don't
> use so many variables - just store the address in the callback args
> directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

Applied, thanks.
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