On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:22:55PM +0300, NorthPole wrote:

Hello everyone

I'm completely new to linux kernel and I would be grateful if you
could help me get started.
I read some basic things about the kernel. But I couldnt find anything
relevant to the question below.

So: Does the kernel have any support for the construction and encoding
of type/length/value (TLV) or other information element messages?
 if it has(or if you dont know) where can I find a list or more documentation?

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Hi,

Just do grepping along Linux kernel sources for TLV:
     $grep -rlsw TLV ./

and you get a lot point for investigation. For instance, TLV based
data protocol is used by ALSA driver [1]

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.3/include/sound/tlv.h

Best wishes
Vladimir Murzin