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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:06:13 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: picking a new AF_* number for NETLINK ?
Message-ID:  <20140117130613.GA3760@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140116231902.GA51955@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20140116231902.GA51955@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:19:02AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we
> have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a
> number to use for AF_NETLINK/PF_NETLINK in the messages.
>=20
> Obviously we'd like ovs to be loadable as a module on existing
> kernels, so i wonder if there are any restrictions on what we
> can use -- specifically, whether we should make sure that
>=20
> 	AF_NETLINK < AF_MAX=20
>=20
> or that is irrelevant.

I asked this question a couple of month ago to Alfred (who did the reservat=
ion
stuff) exactly for AF_NETLINK which I planned to implement here is his answ=
er:

| You want to take 38.
|=20
| The next person should take 40.
|=20
| All odds until 133 are allocated for vendors and should not be used by Fr=
eeBSD
| code.

regards,
Bapt

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