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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: Rules and groups
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:25:37 +0200
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* Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> 2006-08-09 09:01
> With your new protocol independent rules code, I see that there is an
> entry in struct fib_rules_ops for a netlink group for notification of
> rule changes. For whatever reason (historical I guess) DECnet has never
> had a nl group assigned for this, so I'm left with two choices when moving
> the code over to ues your new scheme.
> 
> Either I could send a patch to put the content of notify_rule_change()
> conditional on nlgroup being non-zero, or I could assign a suitable
> group for DECnet rule changes. I'm leaning towards the latter as the
> best solution, so that at least it matches up with the other protocols.

Absolutely, notification for DECnet rule changes would be nice to have.