Day 1 / Track 1 / Talk 2
Workshop: Netlink Workshop
Chair: David Ahern and Roopa Prabhu
Report by: Michael Kehoe

The session presented an introduction to Netlink and it’s message structure and the need for better libraries. The presenters then looked at some past mistakes made with netlink, the issue with using netlink at scale (messages/ events). In the final part of the session, there was a deep-dive into devlink and the migration of ethtool to netlink.

Site: https://www.netdevconf.info/0x13/session.html?workshop-netlink