Re: netlink protocol

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

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:23:27AM +0800, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 03:59:44PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > 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.

Sorry for the buzz. The main problem should be uevent and I used kevent to
replace it.

-rxg