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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] sock_diag: notify packet socket creation/deletion
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:50 +0200
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Le 20/05/2013 08:29, David Miller a =E9crit :
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:25:38 +0200
>
>> With this patch, a netlink message is sent each time a packet socket
>> is created or deleted.  The framework is generic, so it's easy to
>> add the notification for other kind of sockets.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
>
> Just curious what you want to use this for.
Some HW (custom FPGA, ASICs, NPUs) are able to offload packet captures,=
 so it is=20
required to notify them.