Re: Allowing netlink_family to be any integer (was: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target)

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 08:25, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:53:15AM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > 
> > The only real problem I see is sk_protocol being only 8bit as
> > limiting factor.
> 
> Well we wouldn't be using sk_protocol to look things up anymore.
> We'd be holding a reference on the family directly once the socket
> is created.

Thats why i said:
This does not exclude the use of the netlink numbers, but should ease
them. I think that rtnetlink is already overloaded and would benefit
from having a clean split. As an example things like links and IPaddress
should probably reside elsewhere since they are generic enough a
service.

Orthogal to this:
If we could get more people to use the work from Evgeniy as opposed to
creating a new netlink protocols, then it would benefit people - Harald
could have used that scheme in what he was trying to do for example.

cheers,
jamal