Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:35:46 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers: connector: cn_proc: allow limiting certain messages | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Daniel Walker (danielwa)" <danielwa@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:30:36 +0000
> It's multicast and essentially broadcast messages .. So everyone gets every > message, and once it's on it's likely it won't be turned off. Given that, It seems > appropriate that the system administrator has control of what messages if any > are sent, and it should effect all listening for messages. > > I think I would agree with you if this was unicast, and each listener could tailor > what messages they want to get. However, this interface isn't that, and it would > be considerable work to convert to that.
You filter at recvmsg() on the specific socket, multicast or not, I don't understand what the issue is.
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