From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:34:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1180024477.18003.11.camel@johannes.berg> References: <84po8XY4.1179999810.5490870.samuel@sortiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-AqHhNk28XktRItvY8xZl" Cc: giometti@enneenne.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Graf To: Samuel Ortiz Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:42055 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761357AbXEYJwh (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 05:52:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <84po8XY4.1179999810.5490870.samuel@sortiz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-AqHhNk28XktRItvY8xZl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:43 +0000, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > You probably want to use the libnl library. The latest SVN code has > support for generic netlink: > http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ Huh. I just looked at it and I don't understand anything. What's the point with genl_register/genl_unregister and having a table of commands etc? Thomas, can you explain how I should use libnl for nl80211 now? I mean, I can see what I can do with just sending/receiving messages but it feels like I'm missing something with all that other infrastructure in libnl. johannes --=-AqHhNk28XktRItvY8xZl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGVb6c/ETPhpq3jKURAjeaAKClDgwAz32yqhUMZtSl+HyIIh38nQCcCcD4 ybMr9Vc7IF357u9IkVXDAac= =XcPZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-AqHhNk28XktRItvY8xZl--