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

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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 22:00:25 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        hare@...e.com, dhowells@...hat.com, bcodding@...hat.com,
        kolga@...app.com, jmeneghi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for
 handling handshake requests

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?