| To: | Ramon Casellas <casellas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Request: Allocate a Netlink Family Number for MPLS |
| From: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:45:32 -0800 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.SOL.4.40.0312011518440.25991-100000@gervaise.enst.fr> |
| References: | <Pine.SOL.4.40.0312011518440.25991-100000@gervaise.enst.fr> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:36:26 +0100 (MET) Ramon Casellas <casellas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We're working in porting mpls for linux to 2.6 and one of the planned > features is to move from an IOCTL based approach to a Netlink based one > for updating/querying the MPLS FTN/ILM/Label Mapping/... tables from > userspace. Since netlink families are public, I would > like to know if it is possible to reserve a family for MPLS, even though > the MPLS patch is not part of the official kernel. You don't need a whole new netlink family. Just create a dummy address family for MPLS (ie. AF_MPLS) and then just use NETLINK_ROUTE. |
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