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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:23:06 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Multicast netlink for non-root process
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:13:30PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:02:22PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > There used to be a reason for it (ask Alexey for details), but it has gone.
> > It should be safe now to remove it I think.
> > 
> > -Andi
> 
> 	Ok, so let's ask Alexey ;-)

I think the reason was that at some point there was no proper receive
buffer management in place for netlink multicast. But that should be long fixed.

-Andi
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