Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] sock_diag: notify packet socket creation/deletion

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:50 +0200

Le 20/05/2013 08:29, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:25:38 +0200
>
>> With this patch, a netlink message is sent each time a packet socket
>> is created or deleted.  The framework is generic, so it's easy to
>> add the notification for other kind of sockets.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
>
> Just curious what you want to use this for.
Some HW (custom FPGA, ASICs, NPUs) are able to offload packet captures, so it is 
required to notify them.