netdev - Re: Generic netlink interface help

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 18:34:37 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc:	giometti@...eenne.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:43 +0000, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

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

Huh. I just looked at it and I don't understand anything. What's the
point with genl_register/genl_unregister and having a table of commands
etc? Thomas, can you explain how I should use libnl for nl80211 now? I
mean, I can see what I can do with just sending/receiving messages but
it feels like I'm missing something with all that other infrastructure
in libnl.

johannes

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