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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-09-18 00:01:59 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-09-22 15:18:51 -0700
commiteb328111efde7bca782f340fe805756039ec6a0c (patch)
tree77c38b0a7ee67703c95caf16c6691576e2f77d03 /include
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')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/genetlink.h18
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h2
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index 84f12a41dc0..9049dc65ae5 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ struct genlmsghdr {
#define GENL_HDRLEN NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct genlmsghdr))
+#define GENL_ADMIN_PERM 0x01
+
/*
* List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers:
*/
@@ -43,9 +45,25 @@ enum {
CTRL_ATTR_UNSPEC,
CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID,
CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME,
+ CTRL_ATTR_VERSION,
+ CTRL_ATTR_HDRSIZE,
+ CTRL_ATTR_MAXATTR,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OPS,
__CTRL_ATTR_MAX,
};
#define CTRL_ATTR_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_MAX - 1)
+enum {
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_UNSPEC,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_ID,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_FLAGS,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_POLICY,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_DOIT,
+ CTRL_ATTR_OP_DUMPIT,
+ __CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX,
+};
+
+#define CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX (__CTRL_ATTR_OP_MAX - 1)
+
#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 97d6d3aba9d..4a38d85e4e2 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ struct genl_family
struct list_head family_list; /* private */
};
-#define GENL_ADMIN_PERM 0x01
-
/**
* struct genl_info - receiving information
* @snd_seq: sending sequence number