From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751849Ab0CSW0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47913 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751695Ab0CSW0t (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA3FA1D.8050204@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:37 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: andi@firstfloor.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add PGM protocol support to the IP stack References: <87tysccjrn.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20100319.145336.226782717.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20100319.145336.226782717.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/19/2010 02:53 PM, David Miller wrote: > But I also don't consider what openpbm has to do right now to > be all that much of a restriction. You need privileges to > add the protocol to the kernel, you need privileges to run > the userspace variant, there is no real difference. The real difference is if multiplex is needed between multiple unprivileged users. -hpa