Re: netlink protocol

[Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 03:59:44PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> > On Feb 16, 2024, at 3:16 PM, Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > There are some go modules use this syscall and marked for Linux only.
> > This protocol also appeared in FreeBSD 13.2.
> > Is there any plan to port it? Or any other method to implement it?
> 
> Netlink by itself isn't terribly useful (and it's pretty gross, honestly).  Kernel subsystems also have to interface with it.
> 
> What do these Go modules implement?  Do you need to run an application that uses one of them?
> 
> -- thorpej

The problem I encountered is https://github.com/s-urbaniak/uevent
which is required by arduino serial-discovery tool.

-rxg