On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:10:55PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > > Where does the number 214 come from? > > Experimentally I found that the number had to be fairly small. I > wanted it to be large enough to be unlikely conflict to values the > proper way. I also wanted a number which was arbitrary to avoid > conflicting with other people who may be improperly hardcoding values > like this.
We already use genetlink groups 16 through 31 (see datapath/linux/compat/genetlink-openvswitch.c) and group 32 (see datapath/linux/compat/genetlink-brcompat.c). I don't think it makes sense to skip all the way to 214. Even in 2.6.37 I only see a total of 11 defined genetlink multicast groups, so I doubt that anyone's going to backport a bunch of them to RHEL 5. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
