On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:40:06AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > You are the one user of this new inline function. > Why don't you directly call to netlink_unicast() in your ibnl_unicast() > without messing with widely visible header file?
Since there is a non-blocking version of nlmsg_unicast(), the idea is to make a blocking version available to others as well as maintain consistency of existing code.