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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/genetlink.h, branch v2.6.35-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modules</title>
<updated>2010-04-03T21:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Chapman</name>
<email>jchapman@katalix.com</email>
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<published>2010-04-02T06:19:05+00:00</published>
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This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman &lt;jchapman@katalix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman &lt;jchapman@katalix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>headers_check fix: linux/genetlink.h</title>
<updated>2009-01-30T18:19:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaswinder Singh Rajput</name>
<email>jaswinderrajput@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-30T15:40:52+00:00</published>
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fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:

  usr/include/linux/genetlink.h:12: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput &lt;jaswinderrajput@gmail.com&gt;
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fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:

  usr/include/linux/genetlink.h:12: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput &lt;jaswinderrajput@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T22:47:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-18T22:47:52+00:00</published>
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Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T02:38:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamal Hadi Salim</name>
<email>hadi@cyberus.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-05T03:31:51+00:00</published>
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This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than
being cleaner, saves several bytes.
We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that
to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful
not to do this too often ;-&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than
being cleaner, saves several bytes.
We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that
to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful
not to do this too often ;-&gt;

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;hadi@cyberus.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families</title>
<updated>2006-09-22T22:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-18T07:01:59+00:00</published>
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Additionaly exports the following information when providing
the list of registered generic netlink families:
  - protocol version
  - header size
  - maximum number of attributes
  - list of available operations including
      - id
      - flags
      - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function

libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information:

	0x0010 nlctrl version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 6
	      op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT]
	0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 0
	      op unknown (0x02) [DOIT]
	      op unknown (0x03) [DOIT]
	      ....

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Additionaly exports the following information when providing
the list of registered generic netlink families:
  - protocol version
  - header size
  - maximum number of attributes
  - list of available operations including
      - id
      - flags
      - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function

libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information:

	0x0010 nlctrl version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 6
	      op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT]
	0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 0
	      op unknown (0x02) [DOIT]
	      op unknown (0x03) [DOIT]
	      ....

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NETLINK]: Generic netlink family</title>
<updated>2005-11-10T01:26:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-10T01:25:56+00:00</published>
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The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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