netlink instruction

Contents

•Overview

•UserSpace APIs

•KernelSpace APIs

•Linux Wireless

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Netlink Basics

•A networking-based mechanism thatallows for communication within the kernel as well as between kernel and userland

•Netlink advantages

–Simple to implementation

–No polling is required on any side

–No compilation dependency with kernel core

–Support multicast

–Support full-duplex communication

–Provide a BSD socket-style API

Netlink API

•For user space

–socket()

–sendmsg()

–recvmsg()

–close()

•For kernel space

–netlink_kernel_create()

–netlink_unicast()

–netlink_broadcast()

–netlink_kernel_release()

UserSpace APIs

Kernel Space APIs

Linux Wireless

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