netdev - Re: [Patch 1/5] Network Drop Monitor: Add netlink protocol identifer

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Message-ID: <20090304153951.GC6139@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:39:51 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	zbr@...emap.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/5] Network Drop Monitor: Add netlink protocol
	identifer

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:17:49PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:20:06 +0300
> 
> > Why do you want to use own family instead of using existing netlink
> > helpers like connector or genetlink?
> 
> Yes, indeed, use genetlink for this.
> 
> We don't add new core netlink protocols any more with it's
> fixed address space of link types.
> 

very well, I'll make the change, and repost in a few days when I have it all
tested.
Neil

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