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netlink: allow creating sockets with SOCK_DGRAM.
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Authored by melifaro on Jan 16 2023, 2:20 PM.
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Summary

Some existing applications setup Netlink socket with
SOCK_DGRAM instead of SOCK_RAW. Update the manpage to clarify
that the default way of creating the socket should be with
SOCK_RAW. Update the code to support both SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM.

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Manual page change LGTM. Can't attest to consistency with source code.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 19 2023, 1:15 PM
This revision was landed with ongoing or failed builds.Jan 21 2023, 3:00 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.