On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:05:21 -0700 Stanislav Fomichev wrote: > > +Most of the concepts and examples here refer to the ``NETLINK_ROUTE`` family, > > +which covers much of the configuration of the Linux networking stack. > > +Real documentation of that family, deserves a chapter (or a book) of its own. > > I'm assuming the answer is "no", but nonetheless: is it possible to > use classic families over generic netlink (discover/get policy/etc)? Not as far as I know. > So we can just assume everything is genetlink and safely ignore all > old quirks of the classic variant? The behavior may differ a little with older families when it comes to validation but yes, for the most part genetlink users should be able to ignore all the quirks.
