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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Xtables2 Netlink spec
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:55:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0B3387.5030807@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216140537.GA23297@canuck.infradead.org>

On 16/12/10 15:05, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> BTW, can response messages - all those leading up to NLMSG_DONE -
>>> have different nlmsg_type, or not?
>>
>> They all have the same type.
> 
> This is not a MUST. It is perfectly legal to f.e.:
> 
>  -> FOO_GET (seq=1, NLM_F_REQUEST)
>  <- FOO_DEL (seq=1, NLM_F_MULTI)
>  <- FOO_ADD (seq=1, NLM_F_MULTI)
>  <- NLMSG_DONE (seq=1)

What realistic situation will require this?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24 22:29 Xtables2 Netlink spec Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-26 19:01 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2010-12-09 12:08   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-12-14  2:01     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-14  2:16       ` James Nurmi
2010-12-14  3:46         ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-15 13:54       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-12-16 14:05         ` Thomas Graf
2010-12-16 14:22           ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-17  7:25             ` Thomas Graf
2010-12-17  9:35               ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-17  9:50                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-12-17  9:55           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2010-12-17 14:56             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-15  4:55   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-15  8:51     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2010-12-16  9:57       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-16 12:51         ` Error reporting in Netlink (Re: Xtables2 Netlink spec) Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-16 13:43           ` Thomas Graf
2010-12-16 13:51             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-16 14:19               ` Thomas Graf
2010-12-17 10:00                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-12-16 14:47             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2010-12-16 15:09               ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-16 23:31             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-12-17  6:58               ` Thomas Graf
2010-12-16 23:23           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-12-17 10:02             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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