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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-09-18 03:01:59 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-09-22 18:18:51 -0400
commiteb328111efde7bca782f340fe805756039ec6a0c (patch)
tree77c38b0a7ee67703c95caf16c6691576e2f77d03 /include/linux/genetlink.h
parent78e5b8916e7db119850f57ce8548fbb9767078fc (diff)
[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families
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 <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/genetlink.h18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index 84f12a41dc01..9049dc65ae51 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ struct genlmsghdr {
16 16
17#define GENL_HDRLEN NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct genlmsghdr)) 17#define GENL_HDRLEN NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct genlmsghdr))
18 18
19#define GENL_ADMIN_PERM 0x01
20
19/* 21/*
20 * List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers: 22 * List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers:
21 */ 23 */
@@ -43,9 +45,25 @@ enum {
43 CTRL_ATTR_UNSPEC, 45 CTRL_ATTR_UNSPEC,
44 CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID, 46 CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID,
45 CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME, 47 CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME,
48 CTRL_ATTR_VERSION,
49 CTRL_ATTR_HDRSIZE,
50 CTRL_ATTR_MAXATTR,
51 CTRL_ATTR_OPS,
46 __CTRL_ATTR_MAX, 52 __CTRL_ATTR_MAX,
47}; 53};
48 54
49#define CTRL_ATTR_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MAX - 1) 55#define CTRL_ATTR_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MAX - 1)
50 56
57enum {
58 CTRL_ATTR_OP_UNSPEC,
59 CTRL_ATTR_OP_ID,
60 CTRL_ATTR_OP_FLAGS,
61 CTRL_ATTR_OP_POLICY,
62 CTRL_ATTR_OP_DOIT,
63 CTRL_ATTR_OP_DUMPIT,
64 __CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX,
65};
66
67#define CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX - 1)
68
51#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */ 69#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */