Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:48:28 -0400 | From | Harald Welte <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG |
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:15:05PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > I strongly disrecommend increasing NPROTO. Maybe we should look into > > reusing NETLINK_FIREWALL (which was an old 2.2.x kernel interface). > > ip_queue.c still uses NETLINK_FIREWALL so we really can't use > that.
sorry, I didn't remember that ip_queue reused the 2.2.x netlink number :( We should have renamed it to make it clear.
> So instead, as in the patch below, I solved this for now by using > the NETLINK_SKIP value which was reserved years ago yet never > made use of.
thanks.
-- - Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |