Info about the new netlink layer userland API

From: Rodolfo Giometti
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 20:30:29 EST


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:01:52AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> It's not OK, please use the generic netlink interface and as
> such you will not need to allocate any numbers at all.
>
> Documentation/networking/generic_netlink.txt gives a link
> to some infomration on this topic.

Where can I find some infos about userland programming _without_ using
the libnl library?

There are something similar to the magic command:

ret = socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_PPSAPI);

in this new netlink API?

Thanks for your help,

Rodolfo

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