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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered
 genl families
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:21:29 +0200

> Additionaly exports the following information when providing
> the list of registered generic netlink families:
>   - protocol version
>   - header size
>   - maximum number of attributes
>   - list of available operations including
>       - id
>       - flags
>       - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function
> 
> libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information:
> 
> 	0x0010 nlctrl version 1
> 	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 6
> 	      op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT]
> 	0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1
> 	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 0
> 	      op unknown (0x02) [DOIT]
> 	      op unknown (0x03) [DOIT]
> 	      ....
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Applied to net-2.6.19, thanks Thomas.