Familynlctrl netlink specification¶
Summary¶
genetlink meta-family that exposes information about all genetlinkfamilies registered in the kernel (including itself).
Operations¶
getfamily¶
Get / dump genetlink families
- attribute-set:
- do:
- request
- attributes:
[
family-name]
- reply
- attributes:
[
family-id,family-name,hdrsize,maxattr,mcast-groups,ops,version]
- dump:
- reply
- attributes:
[
family-id,family-name,hdrsize,maxattr,mcast-groups,ops,version]
getpolicy¶
Get / dump genetlink policies
- attribute-set:
- dump:
- request
- attributes:
[
family-name,family-id,op]
- reply
- attributes:
[
family-id,op-policy,policy]
Definitions¶
op-flags¶
- type:
flags
- enum-name:
None
- entries:
admin-permcmd-cap-docmd-cap-dumpcmd-cap-haspoluns-admin-perm
attr-type¶
- enum-name:
netlink-attribute-type
- type:
enum
- entries:
invalidflagu8u16u32u64s8s16s32s64binarystringnul-stringnestednested-arraybitfield32sintuint
Attribute sets¶
ctrl-attrs¶
family-id (u16)¶
family-name (string)¶
version (u32)¶
hdrsize (u32)¶
maxattr (u32)¶
ops (indexed-array)¶
- sub-type:
nest
- nested-attributes:
mcast-groups (indexed-array)¶
- sub-type:
nest
- nested-attributes:
policy (nest-type-value)¶
- type-value:
[‘policy-id’, ‘attr-id’]
- nested-attributes:
op-policy (nest-type-value)¶
- type-value:
[‘op-id’]
- nested-attributes:
op (u32)¶
mcast-group-attrs¶
name (string)¶
id (u32)¶
op-attrs¶
id (u32)¶
flags (u32)¶
- enum:
- enum-as-flags:
True
policy-attrs¶
type (u32)¶
- enum: