So whats the resolution on this? I actually have some cycles this coming
weekend that i was hopping to spend updating the doc instead.
cheers,
jamal
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 10:24 -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> > It shouldn't be hard to split what is implemented in nlmsg_route_perms[]
> > for NETLINK_ROUTE into the definitions of the generic netlink
> > operations, could look like this:
> >
> > struct genl_ops some_op = {
> > [...]
> > .perm = NETLINK_GENERIC_SOCKET__NLMSG_READ,
> > };
>
> We wouldn't need the socket class outside of SELinux, just the perm, so
> something like:
>
> NL_PERM_READ
>
> > int genl_peek_cmd(struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> > {
> > struct genlmsghdr *hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
> >
> > if (nlh->nlmsglen < nlmsg_msg_sizeo(GENL_HDRLEN))
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > return hdr->cmd;
> > }
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, people are already multiplexing commands inside genl
> commands (and if so, why even bother with registerable ops?).
>
>
> I'll look at it in more detail soon.
>
>
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