netdev - Re: [RFC 3/8] quota/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIs

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Message-ID: <1384785706.17916.18.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:41:46 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/8] quota/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIs

On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:12 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 18-11-13 13:44:54, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 13:34 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Anyway, I'll fix quota_nld (userspace daemon consuming quota netlink
> > > messages) to use multicast groups properly with a fallback to previous
> > > behavior in case that fails (to keep compatibility with older kernels) and
> > > since I don't believe anyone else is using this interface (and even
> > > quota_nld isn't widely used), 
> > 
> > Heh. If you want a different group name, that's fine, I just gave it any
> > name ... We could call it "events" for example, since the group name is
> > always qualified by the family name anyway.
>   OK, "events" might be a better name then.

Ok, I'll rename it in my patch.

johannes

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