From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080321.154728.263190239.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080321110515.422f9798@extreme>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:05:15 -0700
> Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications.
> This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with
> messages that are then ignored.
>
> Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter
> state machine operations are done as network byte order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied, thanks.
Although we will have to, at some point, address the
issue of how to transfer netlink on-the-wire portably
and how that interacts with the existing userland
interfaces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 18:05 [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-21 22:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-26 20:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-03-31 19:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-31 19:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-03-31 19:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-31 20:07 ` David Miller
2008-03-31 20:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-03-31 21:49 ` jamal
2008-04-01 11:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-01 14:04 ` jamal
2008-04-02 10:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 11:21 ` Thomas Graf
2008-04-02 12:01 ` jamal
2008-04-02 12:09 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 12:25 ` jamal
2008-04-02 12:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 13:10 ` jamal
2008-04-02 14:28 ` Thomas Graf
2008-04-02 18:12 ` jamal
2008-04-02 12:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 14:09 ` Thomas Graf
2008-04-02 11:42 ` jamal
2008-04-02 12:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 14:05 ` Thomas Graf
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