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genl-ctrl-list - List available kernel-side Generic Netlink families

genl-ctrl-list [-d]

Queries the Generic Netlink controller in kernel and prints a list of all registered Generic Netlink families including the version of the interface that has been registered.

Print help text to console and exit.
Print versioning information to console and exit.
Include additional detailed information for each Generic Netlink family that is printed.

The information includes:

The size of the user specific header.

The maximum Netlink attribute identifier expected by the interface.

A list of available operations including their name, numeric identifier and the flags indicating the capabilities of the opertion.

Available flags:

Requires administrative privileges

Command can handle request

Command can handle a dump request

Command enforces attribute validation policy

A list of registered multicast groups including name (if available) and identifier.

Example:
0x0010 nlctrl version 2

hdrsize 0 maxattr 7

op GETFAMILY (0x03) <has-doit,has-dump,has-policy>

grp notify (0x10)

$ genl-ctrl-list
0x0010 nlctrl version 2
0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 3
0x0012 NLBL_CIPSOv4 version 3
0x0013 NLBL_UNLBL version 3
0x0014 acpi_event version 1
0x0015 thermal_event version 1
0x0016 VFS_DQUOT version 1
0x0017 TASKSTATS version 1
0x0018 NET_DM version 2

Thomas Graf is the original author and current maintainer of libnl and libnl tools. Many people have contributed to it since.

20 April 2012 libnl