[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families
authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:01:59 +0000 (00:01 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:18:51 +0000 (15:18 -0700)
commiteb328111efde7bca782f340fe805756039ec6a0c
tree77c38b0a7ee67703c95caf16c6691576e2f77d03
parent78e5b8916e7db119850f57ce8548fbb9767078fc
[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families

Additionaly exports the following information when providing
the list of registered generic netlink families:
  - protocol version
  - header size
  - maximum number of attributes
  - list of available operations including
      - id
      - flags
      - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function

libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information:

0x0010 nlctrl version 1
    hdrsize 0 maxattr 6
      op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT]
0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1
    hdrsize 0 maxattr 0
      op unknown (0x02) [DOIT]
      op unknown (0x03) [DOIT]
      ....

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/genetlink.h
include/net/genetlink.h
net/netlink/genetlink.c