Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755183AbXLGEV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:21:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753079AbXLGEVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:21:49 -0500 Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:34063 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753060AbXLGEVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:21:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4758CA53.7000407@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:21:39 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: andi@firstfloor.org, renzo@cs.unibo.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) References: <20071206053016.GA1464@cs.unibo.it> <20071206163538.GC20595@one.firstfloor.org> <47585D66.3000404@nortel.com> <20071206.194131.79623068.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20071206.194131.79623068.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Dec 2007 04:21:43.0247 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC0055F0:01C83888] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 20 David Miller wrote: > From: "Chris Friesen" > Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:54 -0600 > > >>One problem we ran into was that there are only 32 multicast groups per >>netlink protocol family. > > > I'm pretty sure we've removed this limitation. As of 2.6.23 nl_groups is a 32-bit bitmask with one bit per group. Also, it appears that only root is allowed to use multicast netlink. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/