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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.
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