From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/11] inet_diag: Partly rename inet_ to sock_ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:24:47 -0800 Message-ID: <20111206102447.25cc60f4@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <4EDE573A.6040607@parallels.com> <4EDE575B.3010507@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Linux Netdev List To: Pavel Emelyanov Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:48477 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521Ab1LFSYu (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:24:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4EDE575B.3010507@parallels.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:56:43 +0400 Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h > index 8374d29..9827ebf 100644 > --- a/include/linux/netlink.h > +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ > #define NETLINK_UNUSED 1 /* Unused number */ > #define NETLINK_USERSOCK 2 /* Reserved for user mode socket protocols */ > #define NETLINK_FIREWALL 3 /* Firewalling hook */ > -#define NETLINK_INET_DIAG 4 /* INET socket monitoring */ > +#define NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG 4 /* socket monitoring */ > #define NETLINK_NFLOG 5 /* netfilter/iptables ULOG */ > #define NETLINK_XFRM 6 /* ipsec */ > #define NETLINK_SELINUX 7 /* SELinux event notifications */ This is a header file that is stripped and exported by other tools. You can add new entries but need to keep existing define's to avoid breaking source compatibility.