Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:51 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >>Do multicast groups have to have a seperate name? Or would it suffice >>to have them associated with the genl family and be able to find out >>the starting group number? In that case something like >> >>struct genl_mc_groups { >> struct genl_family *family or char *family_name or similar; >> unsigned int group_off; >> unsigned int group_num; >> unsigned long groups[]; >>}; >> >>seems to make more sense since you only need a single struct >>per family. > > > Hmm, another thought: since we have 32 bits for group numbers and 16 > bits for families we could just reserve 16 bits for groups within each > family. Or do we get trouble with that because in some place there's a > group bitmap or such? Yes, af_netlink has a bitmap per socket that is subscribed to any group. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html