Subject: Re: HW communication debugging interface - ideas?

From: Thomas Graf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:28:30 +0200

On 09/30/15 at 03:51pm, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> 2) generic Netlink (genl) interface. Easy to put metadata in, including the
> device identificator (pci address). User then can use nlmon in order to
> be able to use wireshark to see the netlink messages.
> 
> Looks like 2) might be viable, well-defined, generic interface to carry
> this info. What do you think? Does this make sense?

+1 since we already have nlmon and Netlink is our standard
control plane protocol.