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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: NETLINK_ROUTE sockets in kernel
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:22:22 -0800
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:46:46 -0800
Anil Gunturu <anil.gunturu@gmail.com> wrote:

> But its not clear on how the rtnetlink_links array is
> populated for PF_NETLINK family. rtnetlink_init seem to populate for
> PF_PACKET and PF_UNSPEC.

This is done via net/ipv4/devinet.c:devinet_init() which sets
rtnetlink_links[] for PF_INET.  Please run grep on the kernel
tree for references to rtnetlink_links[] to see how other
protocol family array entries are initialized.