+/**
+ * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
+ * @skb: netlink message to be sent back
+ * @info: receiver information
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid);
+}
+
+/**
+ * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
+ */
+static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+ return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_len - length of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink message header
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+ struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
+ NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+ return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_msg_size - length of genetlink message not including padding
+ * @payload: length of message payload
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_msg_size(int payload)
+{
+ return GENL_HDRLEN + payload;
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_total_size - length of genetlink message including padding
+ * @payload: length of message payload
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload)
+{
+ return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload));
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message
+ * @payload: size of the message payload
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags);
+}
+
+