From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:43:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1176309793.3826.7.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1176136628.8459.34.camel@johannes.berg> <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net> <20070409.114402.45491411.davem@davemloft.net> <461A9DF1.8080904@trash.net> <1176150557.8459.47.camel@johannes.berg> <461AD517.2000906@trash.net> <1176239819.10381.10.camel@johannes.berg> <461D09AD.9060603@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-MKqt04R1POV4CeclHjU/" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, dim@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:58274 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbXDKQmK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:42:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <461D09AD.9060603@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-MKqt04R1POV4CeclHjU/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:15 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > No, generic netlink avoids allocating netlink families.=20 Well, yes, I thought that was pretty much the point. :) > br_netlink > uses the same netlink family as the other network configuration stuff > (NETLINK_ROUTE), but a different rtgen_family (which matches the > address families). Ah ok. I got all the family types confused then. > But you have a valid point, if we want to use > this for things like bonding or VLAN that aren't actually address > families, we should consider introducing "rtnetlink families" to > avoid adding AF_BONDING, AF_8021Q etc. True. But this still doesn't help wireless which doesn't have either an rtnetlink family nor an address family since it uses generic netlink exclusively. johannes --=-MKqt04R1POV4CeclHjU/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGHRAf/ETPhpq3jKURAuTfAKCSomPsAZZIUrtyPnw57br22wKfhACfUNsE F+Tai518L+0q7S+6y/3NWRg= =islW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MKqt04R1POV4CeclHjU/--