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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-04-29 13:57:50 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-07-18 13:18:46 -0700
commita88b4e04128310d0eb0c3d811782f8619bceb95c (patch)
tree6ebd1d594602245ef613c0de5dcfb6d59ba3c446 /lib/netlink-socket.h
parentbb5c146881eb2b3d48962f89ecaa9598533a91c5 (diff)
netlink-socket: Simplify use of transactions and dumps.
This disentangles "struct nl_dump" from "struct nl_sock", clearing the way to make the use of either one thread-safe in an obviously correct manner. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/netlink-socket.h')
-rw-r--r--lib/netlink-socket.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/netlink-socket.h b/lib/netlink-socket.h
index 78dd7b23..c77050ee 100644
--- a/lib/netlink-socket.h
+++ b/lib/netlink-socket.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ struct nl_transaction {
void nl_sock_transact_multiple(struct nl_sock *,
struct nl_transaction **, size_t n);
+/* Transactions without an allocated socket. */
+int nl_transact(int protocol, const struct ofpbuf *request,
+ struct ofpbuf **replyp);
+void nl_transact_multiple(int protocol, struct nl_transaction **, size_t n);
+
/* Table dumping. */
struct nl_dump {
struct nl_sock *sock; /* Socket being dumped. */
@@ -92,7 +97,7 @@ struct nl_dump {
int status; /* 0=OK, EOF=done, or positive errno value. */
};
-void nl_dump_start(struct nl_dump *, struct nl_sock *,
+void nl_dump_start(struct nl_dump *, int protocol,
const struct ofpbuf *request);
bool nl_dump_next(struct nl_dump *, struct ofpbuf *reply);
int nl_dump_done(struct nl_dump *);