Re: [PATCH] 1 Wire drivers illegally overload NETLINK_NFLOG

From: David S. Miller
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 21:11:14 EST


From: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:33:53 -0400

> I strongly disrecommend increasing NPROTO. Maybe we should look into
> reusing NETLINK_FIREWALL (which was an old 2.2.x kernel interface).

That is how I will fix this 1-wire case, by reusing the NETLINK_FIREWALL
thing.

> But to be honest, I don't really care all that much as long as existing
> and still very actively used values are not just overloaded.

Absolutely.
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