Netlink Protocol Format (RFC3549)
+-----------------+-+-------------------+-+
|Netlink Message |P| Generic Netlink |P|
| Header |A| Message Header |A|
|(struct nlmsghdr)|D|(struct genlmsghdr)|D|
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+-----------------+-+-----------------+-+-----------------+-+-----------------+-+---+
|Netlink Attribute|P|Netlink Attribute|P|Netlink Attribute|P|Netlink Attribute|P|...|
| #0 Header |A| #0 Payload |A| #1 Header |A| #1 Payload |A| |
| (struct nlattr) |D| (void) |D| (struct nlattr) |D| (void) |D| |
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* Each netlink message consists of a bitstream with a netlink header.
* After this header a second header *can* be used specific to the netlink
family in use. This library was tested using the generic netlink
protocol defined by struct genlmsghdr to support nl80211.
* After the header(s) netlink attributes can be appended to the message
which hold can hold basic types such as unsigned integers and strings.
* All data structures in this implementation are byte-aligned (Currently 4 bytes).
* Acknowledgements (ACKs) are sent as NLMSG_ERROR netlink message types (0x2) and
have an error value of 0.
KNOWN BUGS
* NOT THREAD SAFE!!!
* nla_parse - does not use nla_policy argument
* nl_recvmsgs - does not support nl_cb_overwrite_recv()
* nl_recv - sets/unsets async. flag
* genl_ctrl_alloc_cache - netlink send/recv funcs should be used
REFERENCES
* nl80211.h
* netlink_types.h
* $LINUX_KERNEL/net/wireless/nl80211.c
* http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/doc-3.0/index.html
* http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/doxygen/index.html
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