From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Masahide NAKAMURA Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add nl_open to libnetlink Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:56:02 +0900 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040707155602.4698121a@localhost> References: <20040703094632.GA14235@gondor.apana.org.au> <20040705160500.208591b5@localhost> <20040706140550.2d483dc8@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> <20040707130950.0112edf6@localhost> <20040707140533.41c66c03@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger , Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20040707140533.41c66c03@localhost> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello Stephen and Herbert, > > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 19:46:32 +1000 > > > Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > > > I'm in the process of writing two new modules fo ip(8), ippolicy and > > > > ipstate which will be a NETLINK based replacement for setkey. > > > > > > > > In order to do so, I need to get libnetlink to speak the XFRM protocol. > > > > Thus I've added a new nl_open function which allows the protocol to > > > > be specified. > > > > > > I agree with it. > > > > > > Anyway, I have code for ip(8) for similar reason. I've updated the patch and it can build with 2.6.7 kernel headers. Can you check it? http://www.linux-ipv6.org/~nakam/ipxfrm-20040707_2.diff -- Masahide NAKAMURA