From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:15:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20131206.121523.75881126286614298.davem@davemloft.net> References: <52A1A099.3010901@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dborkman@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, sekletar.m@gmail.com, msekleta@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com To: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40285 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755228Ab3LFRPZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:15:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "David Laight" Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:15:58 -0000 >> i) Does BSD have such extensions and if so do we overlap some? >> >> ii) Is it planned to also introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS for BSD kernels >> to have one common api (that i.e. libpcap would then make use of)? > > If it is useful to add any of the extensions, and they don't collide > with any other existing changes, then they might be added. > Adding a request that indicates which extensions are supported should > be easier than adding the extensions themselves. > Adding all the Linux extensions at once could be problematic. Again, we're not going to accomodate this, sorry.