Question about tlv message support

[NorthPole]

@JAYESH TANK
thank you very much :-) that was a very good starting poind :D


@Javier
you are right, so here is something more specific

I want to add a framework for tlv message construction and parsing in
a wireless mesh routing protocol so as it can have the advantages of
the tlv way of communication (one of which is backwards compatibility)

afaik tlvs are used in many places in the kernel and as Jayesh stated
there are no ready made apis.
So if I want to do that I have to copy someone else's code and modify
it accordingly

but I have another general question:
In the future if I want to find if the kernel has internal support for
the X thing how can I find out if it has and how it does support?



On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<martinez.javier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, NorthPole <morfeas3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> thx Javier
>> But isnt the api for use in the user space?
>> I need something for use in kernel space
>>
>
> What exactly do you want to do?
>
> Generic Netlink can be used to communicate both user-space and kernel
> code, but you will have general answer to general questions :)
>
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