内核ACPI函数API之acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event

acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event 这个函数会根据形参来组建一个netlink的message，并发送这个message到user space
其源码分析如下：
int acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(const char *device_class,
				      const char *bus_id,
				      u8 type, int data)
{
	struct sk_buff *skb;
	struct nlattr *attr;
	struct acpi_genl_event *event;
	void *msg_header;
	int size;

	/* allocate memory */
	#申请一个用于保存message的内存空间
	size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct acpi_genl_event)) +
	    nla_total_size(0);
	#用申请到的内存生成一个sk_buff
	skb = genlmsg_new(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
	if (!skb)
		return -ENOMEM;

	/* add the genetlink message header */
	#给sk_buff 天剑header
	msg_header = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, acpi_event_seqnum++,
				 &acpi_event_genl_family, 0,
				 ACPI_GENL_CMD_EVENT);
	if (!msg_header) {
		nlmsg_free(skb);
		return -ENOMEM;
	}

	/* fill the data */
	attr =
	    nla_reserve(skb, ACPI_GENL_ATTR_EVENT,
			sizeof(struct acpi_genl_event));
	if (!attr) {
		nlmsg_free(skb);
		return -EINVAL;
	}
	#给要发送的event赋值
	event = nla_data(attr);
	memset(event, 0, sizeof(struct acpi_genl_event));

	strcpy(event->device_class, device_class);
	strcpy(event->bus_id, bus_id);
	event->type = type;
	event->data = data;
	#标志skb结束
	/* send multicast genetlink message */
	genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
	#发送event
	genlmsg_multicast(&acpi_event_genl_family, skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
	return 0;
}