From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Generic Netlink HOW-TO based on Jamal's original doc Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:49:33 -0800 Message-ID: <45549F8D.7010902@osdl.org> References: <45541757.90800@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63720 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946712AbWKJPtq (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:49:46 -0500 To: Paul Moore In-Reply-To: <45541757.90800@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Paul Moore wrote: > A couple of months ago I promised Jamal and Thomas I would post some comments to > Jamal's original genetlink how-to. However, as I started to work on the > document the diff from the original started to get a little ridiculous so > instead of posting a patch against Jamal's original how-to I'm just posting the > revised document in it's entirety. > > In the document below I tried to summarize all of the things I learned while > developing NetLabel. Some of it came from Jamal's document, some the kernel > code, and some from discussions with Thomas. Hopefully this document will make > it much easier for others to use genetlink in the future. > > If this text below is acceptable to everyone, should this be added to the > Documentation directory? > Mind if we put a wikified version on http://linux-net.osdl.org?