netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: introduce SO_BPF

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Date:	Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:15:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Cc:	dborkman@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, sekletar.m@...il.com,
	msekleta@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS

From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:15:58 -0000

>>   i) Does BSD have such extensions and if so do we overlap some?
>> 
>> ii) Is it planned to also introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS for BSD kernels
>>      to have one common api (that i.e. libpcap would then make use of)?
> 
> If it is useful to add any of the extensions, and they don't collide
> with any other existing changes, then they might be added.
> Adding a request that indicates which extensions are supported should
> be easier than adding the extensions themselves.
> Adding all the Linux extensions at once could be problematic.

Again, we're not going to accomodate this, sorry.
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