Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new()
instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly.

Replaces error handling of message construction functions when
constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies
a bug in calculating the size of the skb.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fixes a wrong use of current->pid as netlink pid.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix code that passes back netlink status messages about
bridge changes. Submitted by Aji_Srinivas@emc.com
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix for inability of br_dump_ifinfo to handle non-zero start index:
loop index never increases when entered with non-zero start.
Spotted by Kirill Korotaev.
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Savochkin <saw@swsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add basic netlink support to the Ethernet bridge. Including:
 * dump interfaces in bridges
 * monitor link status changes
 * change state of bridge port

For some demo programs see:
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/brnl.tar.gz

These are to allow building a daemon that does alternative
implementations of Spanning Tree Protocol.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>