On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:15 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > No, generic netlink avoids allocating netlink families.
Well, yes, I thought that was pretty much the point. :) > br_netlink > uses the same netlink family as the other network configuration stuff > (NETLINK_ROUTE), but a different rtgen_family (which matches the > address families). Ah ok. I got all the family types confused then. > But you have a valid point, if we want to use > this for things like bonding or VLAN that aren't actually address > families, we should consider introducing "rtnetlink families" to > avoid adding AF_BONDING, AF_8021Q etc. True. But this still doesn't help wireless which doesn't have either an rtnetlink family nor an address family since it uses generic netlink exclusively. johannes
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