netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

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Message-Id: <20080321.154728.263190239.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	hadi@...erus.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:05:15 -0700

> Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications.
> This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with
> messages that are then ignored.
> 
> Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter
> state machine operations are done as network byte order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks.

Although we will have to, at some point, address the
issue of how to transfer netlink on-the-wire portably
and how that interacts with the existing userland
interfaces.

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