From: Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: fleury@cs.auc.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: allocating netlink families?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:25:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FA70015.8080805@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031103170935.5c6688b9.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:43:20 -0800
> Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Has there been any discussion of how one should pick
>>netlink family numbers for new stuff like netkeeper?
>>Sure, everyone could use NETLINK_USERSOCK, but
>>that means only one new netlink module could be resident at a time...
>
>
> When it's determined to be useful and to be added to
> the main kernel sources, we'll allocate a number.
> Before that time, there is no need to allocate. We'd
> run out quickly if everyone with a funny netlink thing they
> wanted to do asked for a number.
I guess I was really wondering what somebody who wants to
use two netlink things in the same system should do. Steal
family 31, I suppose. Ah, well.
I'll just happily use NETLINK_USERSOCK, and won't ask about
clashes until I really run into one.
- Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-04 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-04 0:43 allocating netlink families? (was: re: Announce: NetKeeper Firewall For Linux) Dan Kegel
2003-11-04 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-04 1:25 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-11-04 8:47 ` Emmanuel Fleury
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