netdev - Re: Generic netlink interface help

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 11:56:58 +0200
From:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:43:30AM -0000, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

> You could look at Johannes Berg 802.11 generic netlink implementation for
> a good example (net/wireless/nl80211.c in John Linville's tree):
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=blob;f=net/wireless/nl80211.c;h=d6a44a386c2b86b81514b08d3c9b324dd2c7d229;hb=HEAD

Thanks, I'll take a look to it!

> You probably want to use the libnl library. The latest SVN code has
> support for generic netlink:
> http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/

Regarding this issue I'd like to know if could be possible to avoid
using this library... my LinuxPPS support is strictly relate with NTPD
which doesn't use such library. It could be possible still using
simple syscalls to access this new layer as for the old API?

Thanks,

Rodolfo

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