From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261575AbVGYCJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:09:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261592AbVGYCJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:09:47 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:11736 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261590AbVGYCJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:09:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050724.190939.03085123.davem@davemloft.net> To: laforge@netfilter.org Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050723133353.GB11177@rama> References: <20050723125427.GA11177@rama> <20050722.230559.123762041.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20050723133353.GB11177@rama> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Harald Welte Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:33:53 -0400 > I strongly disrecommend increasing NPROTO. Maybe we should look into > reusing NETLINK_FIREWALL (which was an old 2.2.x kernel interface). That is how I will fix this 1-wire case, by reusing the NETLINK_FIREWALL thing. > But to be honest, I don't really care all that much as long as existing > and still very actively used values are not just overloaded. Absolutely.