linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector

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Message-Id: <20091002.095724.12562070.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	philipp.reisner@...bit.com
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com, zbr@...emap.net,
	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector

From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:54:12 +0200

> Think of the connector as a layer on top of netlink that allows more
> than a hard coded number of subsystems to use netlink.

There are no such limits in netlink, we have 'genetlink' which allows
an arbitrary number of subsystems to use netlink.

What connector provides over netlink/genetlink is something different
altogether.
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