netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 15:43:06 +0000
From:   Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "hare@...e.com" <hare@...e.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
        Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@...app.com>,
        "jmeneghi@...hat.com" <jmeneghi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for
 handling handshake requests


> On Feb 9, 2023, at 1:00 AM, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:41:13 -0500 Chuck Lever wrote:
>> diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
>> index 0a4d73317759..a269d356f358 100644
>> --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
>> +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>> #define NETLINK_RDMA		20
>> #define NETLINK_CRYPTO		21	/* Crypto layer */
>> #define NETLINK_SMC		22	/* SMC monitoring */
>> +#define NETLINK_HANDSHAKE	23	/* transport layer sec handshake requests */
> 
> The extra indirection of genetlink introduces some complications?

I don't think it does, necessarily. But neither does it seem
to add any value (for this use case). <shrug>


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Chuck Lever