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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: netlink: filter particular protocols from
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:44:37 -0700
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On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:57:55 -0700
> 
> > If you want filtering, why not add BPF (sk_filter) support to this?
> 
> That's one idea.
> 
> But using sk_protocol is at least consistent with how AF_PACKET does
> things.

Why not both.