netdev - Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line

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Message-ID: <20100526155616.GB2497@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 08:56:16 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>
To:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@...ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Vivek Kashyap <vivk@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line

* Stefan Berger (stefanb@...ibm.com) wrote:
> When I have libvirt talk to my dummy server, I pass the getpid() of
> libvirt into the request message, just to fulfill the requirement of it
> being != 0 so the kernel driver doesn't process the msg. I also don't
> want to have to determine the pid of the target process. Now I believe
> the problem with that *may* be that multiple daemons may want to process
> the message,

What other daemon do you expect to be listening besides lldpad?

thanks,
-chris
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