On Tue, 2006-20-06 at 10:02 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> * jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-06-19 09:41

> One important point about attributes in generic netlink is that
> their scope is per command instead of per family as in netlink.
> It's not forbidden to use the same set of attribute identifiers
> for two separete commands but it should be avoided to have a
> single large list of attributes and have every command pick out
> the attributes it needs.
> 

Thanks - I will add this to the doc. Additionally the commands are 
scoped per registered family (as opposed of needing them to be 
encapsulated in the nlmsg_type).

> 
> > TODO:
> > a) Add a more complete compiling kernel module with events.
> > Have Thomas put his Mashimaro example and point to it.
> 
> I guess we have a legal issue here ;)
> 

change the name ;->

> > b) Describe some details on how user space -> kernel works
> > probably using libnl??
> 
> I'll take care of that.

Whats the plan? To add to this doc or separate doc?

cheers,
jamal

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