netdev - Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

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Message-Id: <1183121511.4089.53.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:51:51 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	hadi@...erus.ca, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-acpi@...r" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, lenb@...nel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:48 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> > Hmm, another thought: since we have 32 bits for group numbers and 16
> > bits for families we could just reserve 16 bits for groups within each
> > family. Or do we get trouble with that because in some place there's a
> > group bitmap or such?
> 
> 
> Yes, af_netlink has a bitmap per socket that is subscribed to any group.

Not a good idea then. I'll see what I can do.

johannes

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