Re: allocating netlink families? (was: re: Announce: NetKeeperFirewall For Linux)

[David S. Miller]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:43:20 -0800
Dan Kegel <dkegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Has there been any discussion of how one should pick
> netlink family numbers for new stuff like netkeeper?
> Sure, everyone could use NETLINK_USERSOCK, but
> that means only one new netlink module could be resident at a time...

When it's determined to be useful and to be added to
the main kernel sources, we'll allocate a number.
Before that time, there is no need to allocate.  We'd
run out quickly if everyone with a funny netlink thing they
wanted to do asked for a number.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/