Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

Johannes Berg
2007-06-29T13:12:44Z

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On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:02 -0400, jamal wrote:

> Maybe a mix (of a few static and mostly dynamic) as Patrick says - but
> that would mean more coding for you ;-> Actually i like the idea of at
> least your ID being your static mcast group and the rest are in the
> dynamic pool (Hey, thanks Patrick;->). This means the first 2^16 are
> static/reserved and if you want more groups, you register for them.

Hah, that means I get to rewrite af_netlink.c to not have a bitmap since
that'd mean that with just a single dynamically registered multicast
group it gets ID 2^16 which means an 8 kilobyte bitmap...

johannes

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