Hi, No I have added a new family and new operations using genl_register_family and genl_register_ops which would fall under NETLINK_GENERIC. Since the ID in the family structure is generated dynamically, I need that ID to interact with my NEW family that I have defined. Do I have a way of querying the generic netlink interface which would fetch me the ID for a given family name? Also, I dont see any API's in the libnl library for generic netlink operations. Any specific pointers? Thanks, Simha. -----Original Message----- From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer [mailto:hagen@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:23 PM To: NP, Simha (STSD) Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Generic Netlink Sockets On 2007.04.10 NP, Simha (STSD) pressed the following keys: >Hi, > I wanted to add a new family under NETLINK_GENERIC. >I have registered the family and the operations in the kernel code. I >wonder how I will get to know the family id in the user space. 1) netdev is a better place for thinks like that. 2) If I understand you correctly, you didn't use the generic netlink interface - you add your own family (after NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT )!? If that is true, than you can't utilize an library - you must include netlink.h in your source code. On the other side: if you utilize NETLINK_GENERIC, than libnl[1] is your friend. >Thanks, >simha. Hagen PS: often the generic netlink interface is a better choice! [1] http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ -- "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
