Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:09:35 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>
Cc: fleury@cs.auc.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: allocating netlink families? (was: re: Announce: NetKeeper
 Firewall For Linux)
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:43:20 -0800
Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> Has there been any discussion of how one should pick
> netlink family numbers for new stuff like netkeeper?
> Sure, everyone could use NETLINK_USERSOCK, but
> that means only one new netlink module could be resident at a time...

When it's determined to be useful and to be added to
the main kernel sources, we'll allocate a number.
Before that time, there is no need to allocate.  We'd
run out quickly if everyone with a funny netlink thing they
wanted to do asked for a number.
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