On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 13:55 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:

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That's not particularly hard to figure out, for example by looking at
sysfs.

Is this really so time-constrained/important/... that you can't do that?

It does not seem very practical to dig this information from sysfs as
the same information can be easily get via netlink as this patch shows.

Well, that's a slippery slope. I'd consider it more practical to use
existing APIs instead of (gratuitously) inventing new ones. It'll even
work on older kernels as an added benefit.

johannes