jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 14:34 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >>Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be >>preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network >>configuration. > > > or you can just hold rtnl while using genl. > I do agree it would be easier to just use rtnetlink ...
The rtnl needs to be held in either case, but using a different netlink family introduces races in message processing. For example a simple: ip link add dev veth0 ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev veth0 might fail because we have two different input queues and the routing message might get processed before the link message. - 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
