Category "netlink"

Which all multicast groups are available under custom netlink protocol

I am trying to send a notification message from a kernel module to user space application using netlink sockets interface and custom netlink protocol. My unders

IWD ap not starting: START_AP failed: -95

Interface is set to AP mode. When turning on ap it is giving "Operation not supported". [iwd]# ap wlan0 start "start_wpa2" password Operation not supported Outp

IWD ap not starting: START_AP failed: -95

Interface is set to AP mode. When turning on ap it is giving "Operation not supported". [iwd]# ap wlan0 start "start_wpa2" password Operation not supported Outp

How kernel know which driver to be called when we are calling any socket from user-space?

I am using IWD as a wireless daemon in userspace. Driver and firmware are loaded. When the socket is called by IWD using nl80211, it passes to nl80211 and than

Netlink : Receiving data multiple times from kernel

I recently encounter a problem when I'm using netlink to transfer many data between userspace and kernelspace. For example, function in userspace releases a req