netdev - Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

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Message-Id: <1183365821.4089.94.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:43:41 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-acpi@...r" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, lenb@...nel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 11:32 -0400, jamal wrote:

> > +static void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_multicast_group *grp)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * TODO: fix multicast group re-use by clearing the bit
> > +	 *	 for this group in all genetlink sockets.
> > +	 */
> > +	clear_bit(grp->id, mc_groups);
> > +	list_del(&grp->list);
> 
> I think you need a 
> genl_ctrl_event(CTRL_CMD_DELMCAST_GRP, family);
> here? You may need to save the mcast details before you delete.

I will, but not currently because right now mcast groups are only
deleted when the family is dropped.

> > +			NLA_PUT_U32(skb, CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_ID, grp->id);
> > +			NLA_PUT_STRING(skb, CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP_NAME,
> > +				       grp->name);
> > +
> 
> Consider my earlier suggestion to use CTRL_ATTR_MCAST_GRP which has both
> id and name in one struct.

Yeah I thought about that but then saw Patrick's patches to convert
other things away from structs so I wasn't sure what the idea here is.
Patrick, care to comment?

> Other than that - looking good.

:)

johannes

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