From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Kuznetsov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NETLINK]: Handle NLM_F_ECHO in netlink_rcv_skb() Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:32:53 +0400 Message-ID: <20060810203252.GA6414@ms2.inr.ac.ru> References: <20060809204821.216122988@postel.suug.ch> <20060809205439.434010049@postel.suug.ch> <20060810155120.GA494@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20060810190210.GH14627@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from minus.inr.ac.ru ([194.67.69.97]:33693 "HELO ms2.inr.ac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751591AbWHJUdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:33:24 -0400 To: Thomas Graf Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060810190210.GH14627@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello! > What's wrong with listening to the notification for that purpose? Nothing! NLM_F_ECHO _is_ listening for notifications without subscription to multicast groups and need to figure out what messages are yours. But beyond this NLM_F_ECHO is totally subset of this. Which still makes much more sense then echoing of a know thing, does not it? Alexey