picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

On 17.01.2014 03:19, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we
> have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a
Wow, great!
How deep you're planning to go with netlink support?

E.g. sockets with NETLINK_GENERIC OVS-related CMDs, or NETLINK_ROUTE 
(and other families like FW) as well?
> 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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