Per command callback

[Thomas Graf]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Dima Kukulniak wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Currently I have to figure out the intended command based on the 
> > containing attributes. There must be also an easier way to figure out 
> > the command in my generic receive method. How can that be achieved?
> > 
> 
> I think you can extract the command id from gen netlink header of a
> netlink message which is
> 
> struct genlmsghdr {
> 	__u8	cmd;
> 	__u8	version;
> 	__u16	reserved;
> };
> 
> And the rest can be organised in call back for a valid message.

That's the way to do it right now but it would definitely be nice to
have an API allowing to register a callback per genl command.