netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/2] libnetlink: add a variant of rtnl_send

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:07:22 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	zenczykowski@...il.com
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/2] libnetlink: add a variant of
 rtnl_send_check that consumes ACKs

On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 22:22 +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> The new variant is identical to rtnl_send_check, except it also
> consumes the kernel response instead of using MSG_PEEK. This is
> useful for callers that send simple commands that never cause a
> response but only ACKs, and that expect to receive and deal
> with errors without printing them to stderr like rtnl_talk does.

> +inline int rtnl_send_check(struct rtnl_handle *rth, const void *buf, int len)
> +{
> +	return rtnl_send_check_ack(rth, buf, len, 0);
> +}

Please remove this inline attribute.

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