Module neli::genl

Genetlink (generic netlink) header and attribute helpers This module contains generic netlink parsing data structures. This is all handled by the Genlmsghdr header struct which contains all of the information needed for the generic netlink layer.

Design decisions

The attributes that generic netlink uses are located in nlattr.rs. These attributes require special attention when parsing so they are separated into their own module.

The generic netlink attrs field has been changed to a Vec of Nlattrs instead of the original Vec<u8> to allow simpler parsing at the top level when one Nlattr structure is not nested within another, a use case that is instead handled in nlattr.rs.

Structs

Genlmsghdr

Struct representing generic netlink header and payload