Hello all, I am thinking of use netlink socket as a replacement of IOCTLs in a SCSI HBA driver I am working on. After reading some document from the Internet, I have the following questions: 1) Is netlink Socket designed as a general mechanism to replace IOCTL or it is still mostly used for networking? I seems that currently there are only 32 protocol types available in netlink.h, most of them are used for networking purpose. 2) I seems to me that the there is no mechanism to share the same protocol type among different drivers or kernel modules. For example, I can not just use one of the existing protocol type say NETLINK_ROUTE to implement the IOCTL functionality of a driver. Am I missing anything? 3) What is the kernel community's policy of accepting a new protocol type into netlink.h? Since the maximum is 32, with only about 16 left, it seems to be impossible to get a protocol type specifically used for a particular driver. Thanks a lot Jing - 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
