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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:05:59PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:31:07 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Initially I considered an interface where kernel users can register
> > themselves using a string as the key.  But I soon realised that we
> > could simply allow the netlink_family field to be an arbitrary integer
> > that is used as a key to a hash table.
> 
> (I assume you mean "nl_family" not "netlink_family" :-)

I'm no plans yet in taking over all address families :)
I'm only referring to the third argument in socket(2).

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