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Netlink Handbook¶

Netlink documentation for users.

  • Introduction to Netlink
    • Opening a socket
    • Generic Netlink
    • Advanced topics
    • Classic Netlink
    • uAPI reference
  • Using Netlink protocol specifications
    • Simple CLI
    • Generating kernel code
    • YNL lib
  • Netlink protocol specifications (in YAML)
    • Compatibility levels
    • Schema structure
    • genetlink
    • Attribute types
  • Netlink spec C code generation
    • Globals
    • Definitions
    • Attributes
    • Operations
    • Multicast groups
    • Code generation
  • Netlink specification support for legacy Generic Netlink families
    • Specification
    • Operations
    • Other quirks
  • Netlink specification support for raw Netlink families
    • Specification
See also:

  • Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst

  • Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/index.rst

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