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