linux-kernel - Re: Missing generic netlink controller operations

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Message-ID: <8baab0a4-aa71-2fd9-d3cd-93daf1d792cb@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:38:40 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Collin <collin@...rougc.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing generic netlink controller operations

[change linux-netdev@ to netdev@]

On 11/16/22 19:54, Collin wrote:
> While messing around with libnl and netlink I noticed that despite existing in an enum in linux/genetlink.h, the CTRL_CMD_{NEW,DEL,GET}OPS operations (and in fact, all operations except for CTRL_CMD_{NEWFAMILY,DELFAMILY,NEWMCAST_GRP,DELMCAST_GRP}) are unimplemented, and have been around, untouched, since the introduction of the generic netlink family. Is there a reason these exist without implementation, or has it simply not been done?

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~Randy