On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:10:05 +1000 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > I'm playing with the recently released GPLed driver from Intersil for > Prism Indigo/GT/Duette chips. They use netlink for communication between > their userspace management tools and their driver. > > Currently it's patching extending MAX_LINKS and using channel 32. I'd > like allocate a permanent channel for it. The patch below assigns > channel 7 (which is currently unused) to it. We're not going to allocate a whole netlink channel number because some driver made a dumb API decision. I'm totally against how the intersil 802.11g driver is doing things. This is not how people should be using netlink, allocating channels for special driver API of the week. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
