netdev - Re: Netlink usage question (for bonding comm with userspace)

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:57 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netlink usage question (for bonding comm with userspace)

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:14:00 -0800

> 	Just so I'm clear, though: use generic netlink for the needs of
> this particular project, and then later it's acceptable to have both
> generic and rtnetlink co-existing for their respective uses?

Use generic netlink for everything.

It's just a different namespace ("text strings", vs. fixed integer
IDs) for netlink sockets, nothing more really.
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