From: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:45:03 +0200
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:01:52AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > It's not OK, please use the generic netlink interface and as > > such you will not need to allocate any numbers at all. > > > > Documentation/networking/generic_netlink.txt gives a link > > to some infomration on this topic. > > If I well understand doing like this means that I have to modify also > userland API, is that true? Yes. > I know that you are forcing in using this new interface for new kernel > projects, but if I have to change my code I need also change NTPD > related code and this is frustrating. I have to interact with both > kernel developers and NTPD ones... :) > > It could be acceptable let me use id "20" (or just another number) to > allow Andrew Morton and other LinuxPPS users to test this new support? > Please, consider that this is not a new project, it was developed > since 2005 when this new interface was not available. Being a 2005 project means only that you've been out of tree for nearly 2 years. Sorry, we are not allocating a netlink IDs for folks, and we're doing it exactly because generic netlink avoids all the fixed numbering API issues. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
