picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?
Luigi Rizzo
rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Thu Jan 16 23:16:45 UTC 2014
In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we
have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a
number to use for AF_NETLINK/PF_NETLINK in the messages.
Obviously we'd like ovs to be loadable as a module on existing
kernels, so i wonder if there are any restrictions on what we
can use -- specifically, whether we should make sure that
AF_NETLINK < AF_MAX
or that is irrelevant.
cheers
luigi
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