netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: add nl_set_extack_cookie

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Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:39:23 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: add nl_set_extack_cookie_u64()

On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 08:45 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:48:13 +0200
> 
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> > 
> > Add a helper function nl_set_extack_cookie_u64() to use a u64 as
> > the netlink extended ACK cookie, to avoid having to open-code it
> > in any users of the cookie.
> > 
> > A u64 should be sufficient for most subsystems though we allow
> > for up to 20 bytes right now. This also matches the cookies in
> > nl80211 where I intend to use this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> Feel free to merge this in your wireless tree since the first
> user will be there.
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Will do, thanks.

johannes