Re: picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?

2014-01-17 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:19:02AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a number to use for AF_NETLINK/PF_NETLINK in the messages. Obviously we'd like ovs to be loadable as a module on existing

Re: picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?

2014-01-17 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
On 17.01.2014 03:19, Luigi Rizzo wrote: In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a Wow, great! How deep you're planning to go with netlink support? E.g. sockets with NETLINK_GENERIC OVS-related CMDs, or NETLINK_ROUTE (and other

Re: picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?

2014-01-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov melif...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17.01.2014 03:19, Luigi Rizzo wrote: In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a Wow, great! How deep you're planning to go with netlink