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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] rtnetlink notification rework
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:37:18 +0200

> This patchset reworks rtnetlink notifications. Notification logic
> is fixed and gets hidden behind nlmsg_notify() and the rtnl socket
> is no longer directly accessed. All notification paths get
> appropriate error handling. NLM_F_ECHO support is added where it
> makes sense and no major surgery is required. Abuses of current->pid
> for netlink pids are fixed. An exception is made for users of
> rtnetlink_send() which will get converted in a second step as some
> bigger code change are required.

Really nice work Thomas.  All patches applied to net-2.6.19:

-extern struct sock *rtnl;
-
...
-struct sock *rtnl;
-
...
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtnl);

Let's party! :-)