From: Debashis Dutt <redacted>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:16:29 -0700

However, since the generic netlink is a more generic interface, we could use
this infrastructure in the driver for commands which are not part of
other standard tools.

You aren't the only device in the world that might want to provide
a facility to fetch firmware traces.

This isn't really a niche thing specific to your device at all.