From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Collin <collin@burrougc.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing generic netlink controller operations
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:38:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8baab0a4-aa71-2fd9-d3cd-93daf1d792cb@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40386821-902a-4299-98c8-cbf60dbd4c2c@app.fastmail.com>
[change linux-netdev@ to netdev@]
On 11/16/22 19:54, Collin wrote:
> While messing around with libnl and netlink I noticed that despite existing in an enum in linux/genetlink.h, the CTRL_CMD_{NEW,DEL,GET}OPS operations (and in fact, all operations except for CTRL_CMD_{NEWFAMILY,DELFAMILY,NEWMCAST_GRP,DELMCAST_GRP}) are unimplemented, and have been around, untouched, since the introduction of the generic netlink family. Is there a reason these exist without implementation, or has it simply not been done?
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-17 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-17 3:54 Collin
2022-11-17 16:38 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2022-11-18 4:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
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