From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ramon Casellas <casellas@infres.enst.fr>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Request: Allocate a Netlink Family Number for MPLS
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:45:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201124532.3f6b6a65.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.40.0312011518440.25991-100000@gervaise.enst.fr>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:36:26 +0100 (MET)
Ramon Casellas <casellas@infres.enst.fr> wrote:
> We're working in porting mpls for linux to 2.6 and one of the planned
> features is to move from an IOCTL based approach to a Netlink based one
> for updating/querying the MPLS FTN/ILM/Label Mapping/... tables from
> userspace. Since netlink families are public, I would
> like to know if it is possible to reserve a family for MPLS, even though
> the MPLS patch is not part of the official kernel.
You don't need a whole new netlink family. Just create a dummy
address family for MPLS (ie. AF_MPLS) and then just use
NETLINK_ROUTE.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 14:36 Request: Allocate a Netlink Family Number for MPLS Ramon Casellas
2003-12-01 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-01 19:26 ` Ramon Casellas
2003-12-01 21:10 ` jamal
2003-12-01 20:45 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-12-05 17:35 ` James R. Leu
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