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

[Hangbin L. <liu...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> 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.

Cool. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

> 
> > 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.)

Yes, it works.

Thanks
Hangbin