From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: multicasting netlink messages to groups > 31 from userspace
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:08:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468CFB4C.7040009@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183643610.5163.76.camel@localhost>
jamal wrote:
>
>>Looking through the code that uses NL_NONROOT_SEND I just realised that
>>it's impossible to send multicast messages from userspace to multicast
>>groups with IDs higher than 31. That's not really good given that
>>everywhere else we handle multicast groups up to 2^32-1 :/
>
>
> Yes, this is TheWayItHasBeen(tm).
> Patrick had a patch a while back to allow for subscribing to higher
> groups because bind() has a similar issue in that it allows you only to
> subscribe to the first 32. So it is logical to fix connect, and sendmsg
> in a similar fashion.
For sendmsg I'd suggest to use cmsgs as in recvmsg().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-05 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 19:51 multicasting netlink messages to groups > 31 from userspace Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 12:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-04 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 14:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-04 14:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 14:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-04 14:38 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 14:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-04 14:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 15:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-04 15:08 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05 13:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-06 10:53 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-06 15:08 ` jamal
2007-07-05 13:53 ` jamal
2007-07-05 14:08 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-07-06 10:50 ` Johannes Berg
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