Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 1/8] rtnl: use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg to request link info

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 06:32:19PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > > Back to this question, do you still want to move rtnl socket from clock to
> > > per port?
> > 
> > Yes, but only if we can use a single rtnl socket for both messages.

I meant to say, a single rtnl socket per-port.

> So I think we need to make each port have their own rtnl socket fd. Then each
> fd get their own multicast rtnl message.
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, that is what I meant.  

My question was, can we have both RTNLGRP_LINK and ifinfomsg on the
same per-port socket?  (I assume that works.)

Thanks,
Richard