Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-21 22:47:13
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-21 22:47:13
From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:05:15 -0700
Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications. This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with messages that are then ignored. Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter state machine operations are done as network byte order. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Applied, thanks. Although we will have to, at some point, address the issue of how to transfer netlink on-the-wire portably and how that interacts with the existing userland interfaces.