Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756193AbZJBQ5H (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754791AbZJBQ5G (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:06 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41959 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754394AbZJBQ5F (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:57:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20091002.095724.12562070.davem@davemloft.net> To: philipp.reisner@linbit.com Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, zbr@ioremap.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200910021754.12940.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> References: <1254487211-11810-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <20091002135859.GA9383@kroah.com> <200910021754.12940.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 16 From: Philipp Reisner Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:54:12 +0200 > Think of the connector as a layer on top of netlink that allows more > than a hard coded number of subsystems to use netlink. There are no such limits in netlink, we have 'genetlink' which allows an arbitrary number of subsystems to use netlink. What connector provides over netlink/genetlink is something different altogether. -- 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/