From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080321.154728.263190239.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080321110515.422f9798@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34209 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762601AbYCUWrN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:47:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080321110515.422f9798@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:05:15 -0700 > Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications. > This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with > messages that are then ignored. > > Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter > state machine operations are done as network byte order. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied, thanks. Although we will have to, at some point, address the issue of how to transfer netlink on-the-wire portably and how that interacts with the existing userland interfaces.