Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751206AbXLGFDO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:03:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbXLGFC6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:02:58 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56275 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbXLGFC5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:02:57 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Pfaff Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:54:53 -0800 Message-ID: <873aufkste.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> References: <20071206053016.GA1464@cs.unibo.it> <20071206163538.GC20595@one.firstfloor.org> <47585D66.3000404@nortel.com> <20071206.194131.79623068.davem@davemloft.net> <4758CA53.7000407@nortel.com> Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.14.48.172 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DawUIUtSaLw/bNeNosbBIML8PtQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 16 "Chris Friesen" writes: > David Miller wrote: >> From: "Chris Friesen" >>> 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. Use setsockopt(fd, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, ...) to join an arbitrary Netlink multicast group. -- "A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who cant [sic] program state machines." --Alan Cox -- 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/