From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: <1182270006.4968.62.camel@localhost> References: <1179827251.7707.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1179831825.4121.30.camel@localhost> <1180258853.7707.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4466a10705270629h31977813hd2fc8330bcd87f78@mail.gmail.com> <4466a10705270634j3560c9a3j9c3630ddc20a24aa@mail.gmail.com> <1181811576.5411.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1181820510.4091.9.camel@localhost> <1181869285.5411.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1182178882.4063.11.camel@localhost> <1182252616.21013.12.camel@johannes.berg> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]:1348 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041AbXFSQUJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:20:09 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t15so1878763wxc for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:20:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1182252616.21013.12.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Berg Cc: Zhang Rui , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "linux-acpi@vger" , lenb@kernel.org On Tue, 2007-19-06 at 13:30 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Ah, that coincides with something I was wondering about. Isn't it > possible to have multiple multicast groups with generic netlink? If so, > we might have to use real netlink for wireless... There is one default mcast group per entity. Most users only need that one. If you need more, we go one of two ways: a) Register for multiple IDs with the code as is. b) we could add a "reserve multicast group" interface in the kernel. Thoughts? cheers, jamal