From: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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).

ip_queue.c still uses NETLINK_FIREWALL so we really can't use
that.

So instead, as in the patch below, I solved this for now by using
the NETLINK_SKIP value which was reserved years ago yet never
made use of.

diff --git a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c b/drivers/w1/w1_int.c
--- a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c
+++ b/drivers/w1/w1_int.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static struct w1_master * w1_alloc_dev(u
 
        dev->groups = 23;
        dev->seq = 1;
-       dev->nls = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_NFLOG, NULL);
+       dev->nls = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_W1, NULL);
        if (!dev->nls) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create new netlink socket(%u) for w1 
master %s.\n",
                        NETLINK_NFLOG, dev->dev.bus_id);
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
 #define NETLINK_ROUTE          0       /* Routing/device hook                  
        */
-#define NETLINK_SKIP           1       /* Reserved for ENskip                  
        */
+#define NETLINK_W1             1       /* 1-wire subsystem                     
        */
 #define NETLINK_USERSOCK       2       /* Reserved for user mode socket 
protocols      */
 #define NETLINK_FIREWALL       3       /* Firewalling hook                     
        */
 #define NETLINK_TCPDIAG                4       /* TCP socket monitoring        
                */
-
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