From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:32:42 -0500 > FIB has taken your netlink number, so I changed it to 32 MAX_LINKS is 32, so there is no way this reassignment would work. You have to pick something in the range 0 --> 32, and as is no surprise, there are no numbers available :-) Since ethertap has been deleted, 16-->31 could be made allocatable once more, but I simply do not want to do that and have the flood gates open up for folks allocating random netlink numbers. Instead, we need to take one of those netlink numbers, and turn it into a multiplexable layer that can support an arbitrary number of sub-netlink types. Said protocol would need some shim header that just says the "sub-netlink" protocol number, something as simple as just a "u32", this gets pulled off the front of the netlink packet and then it's passed on down to the real protocol. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
