Hello, I'm trying to use this new API for my LinuxPPS support but I have some difficulties in understanding the code!
Looking at http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Generic_Netlink_HOWTO is not clear... for example in line: msg_head = genlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, 0, flags, DOC_EXMPL_C_ECHO, 1); what "pid", "seq", "type" and "flags" stand for? It could be possible to have a little kernel module implementing the ECHO function as example to compile and test? Again, I read in a message from Jamal Hadi Salim regarding Kernel < --> User space Communication that: Essentially nothing new, Communication is as in standard netlink approach. i.e from user space you open a netlink socket to the kernel - in this case family NETLINK_GENERIC - and send and receive response as well as asynchronous events. To receive to events you subscribe to specific multicast groups. So I suppose I can modify a little my userland programs using old API in order to support this new API. Is that right? Thanks, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Device Driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX programming phone: +39 349 2432127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
