Subject: Re: libmnl limitation...

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:25:06 +0100

On 20/02/11 22:41, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, libmnl only allows setting socket options
> that are of SOL_NETLINK.
> 
> This precludes setting socket options such as SO_ATTACH_FILTER
> which need to be of level SOL_SOCKET.
> 
> It seems to be a mistake to have hard-coded the socket level
> instead of simply letting the user specify it :-/

Indeed, I'm going to obsolete the current function and provide a new
one. Sorry.