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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Request: Allocate a Netlink Family Number for MPLS
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:45:32 -0800
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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.