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

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Message-Id: <20100125.165152.132891922.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:51:52 -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 16:48:21 -0800

> 	I could, for this project, use a netlink_kernel_create and
> socket(AF_NETLINK) pair to perform the communication (presumably adding
> a NETLINK_BONDING or the like to <linux/netlink.h>).

This is no longer done, so that we don't have an issue with
running out of netlink sub-protocol numbers.

Instead use generic netlink, the IDs are allocated dynamically
and looked up via text strings which provides a better scheme
for namespace allocation.
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