Re: Netlink Socket

[Jim Cromie <jcromie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Bennett wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:47, Jim Cromie wrote:
>  
>
> > Dipti Pawar wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi friends,
> > >
> > > How to use netlink socket?
> > >
> > > What is NETLINK_CB() ?
> > >
> > > Do I need to install any patch to use it?
> > >
> > > If anyone has used it please guide me.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dipti.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > more Documentation/connector/c*
> >
> >    
> I don't seem to have such a directory in my source tree. 
yeah sorry. thats for 12-rc5-mm2.

connector is the new, easy way, or so its rep'd

http://lwn.net/Articles/131802/

> I would
> recommend doing a google search on "netlink howto".  I used the
> following link for information, in addition to looking in the kernel
> source tree for other code that uses netlink functions.
>
> http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/docs/netlink-HOWTO.html
>
> hope that helps,
>   Bob Bennett
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