On Wed, 2006-16-08 at 12:58 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > * Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-16 12:58 > > I'm not comfortable with that change since it implies the message > > originated from a user-space process. > > > > The netlink header pid is really akin to sadb_msg_pid from RFC 2367. > > IMHO it should always be zero if the kernel is the originator of the > > message. > > All route and tc notifications already use the pid so applications > can decide whether the event was caused by them. A notification > is a reply to a request so it doesn't even violate RFC 2367.
I would agree with Thomas on this. Regardless, I dont think that 2367 is really a glorified reference (that thing needs so much updating it is not funny). cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
