man/man8/genl.8

   1 .TH GENL 8 "29 Oct 2015" "iproute2" "Linux"
   2 .SH NAME
   3 genl \- generic netlink utility frontend
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .in +8
   6 .ti -8
   7 .BR genl " [ " -s [ tatistics "] ] [ " -d [ etails "] ] [ " -r [ aw "] ] " OBJECT
   8
   9 .ti -8
  10 .BR genl " { " -V [ ersion "] | " -h [ elp "] }"
  11
  12 .ti -8
  13 .IR OBJECT " := { "
  14 .B ctrl
  15 .IR CTRL_OPTS " }"
  16
  17 .ti -8
  18 .IR CTRL_OPTS " := { "
  19 .BR help " | " list " | " monitor " | " get
  20 .IR PARMS " }"
  21
  22 .ti -8
  23 .IR PARMS " := { "
  24 .B name
  25 .IR NAME " | "
  26 .B id
  27 .IR ID " }"
  28 .SH DESCRIPTION
  29 The
  30 .B genl
  31 utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's
  32 designed to support multiple
  33 .IR OBJECT s,
  34 for now only the
  35 .B ctrl
  36 object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.
  37 .SS ctrl
  38 The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:
  39 .TP
  40 .B help
  41 This command just prints a help text for the
  42 .B ctrl
  43 object.
  44 .TP
  45 .B list
  46 Show the registered netlink users.
  47 .TP
  48 .B monitor
  49 Listen for generic netlink notifications.
  50 .TP
  51 .B get
  52 Query the controller for a given user, identified either by
  53 .BR name " or " id .
  54 .SH OPTIONS
  55 genl supports the following options.
  56 .TP
  57 .B \-h, \-help
  58 Show summary of options.
  59 .TP
  60 .B \-V, \-Version
  61 Show version of program.
  62 .TP
  63 .B \-s, \-stats, \-statistics
  64 Show object statistics.
  65 .TP
  66 .B \-d, \-details
  67 Show object details.
  68 .TP
  69 .B \-r, \-raw
  70 Dump raw output only.
  71 .SH SEE ALSO
  72 .BR ip (8)
  73 .br
  74 .SH AUTHOR
  75 genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
  76 .PP
  77 This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.