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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:07:10 +0200 From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> CC: davem@...emloft.net, tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/3] packet: nlmon: virtual netlink monitoring device for packet sockets On 06/19/2013 08:59 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:04:46 +0200 > Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com> wrote: > >> Currently, there is no good possibility to debug netlink traffic that >> is being exchanged between kernel and user space. Therefore, this patch >> implements a netlink virtual device, so that netlink messages will be >> made visible to PF_PACKET sockets. Once there was an approach with a >> similar idea [1], but it got forgotten somehow. > > ip monitor all Well, but this is only restricted to debugging rtnl and there are many other subsystems using netlink. Also, it's not about low-level debugging netlink in general from what I see from the code. So it's not really the same resp. comparable to each other. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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