From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Netlink connector Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:01:14 +0400 Message-ID: <20050726090114.GA870@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20050723125427.GA11177@rama> <20050723091455.GA12015@2ka.mipt.ru> <20050724.191756.105797967.davem@davemloft.net> <20050726084214.GG7925@rama> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Return-path: To: Harald Welte , James Morris , "David S. Miller" , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@redhat.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050726084214.GG7925@rama> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:42:14AM -0400, Harald Welte (laforge@netfilter.org) wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > >From: Evgeniy Polyakov > > >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 > > >>Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm > > >A patch sitting in -mm has zero significance. > > > > The significance I think is that Andrew is trying to gently encourage some > > further progress in the area. > > Patrick McHardy is currently working on some ideas on how to extend > netlink. > > The fundamental problem that the connector is trying to solve: > > 1) provide more 'groups' (to transport more different kinds of events) > 2) provide an abstract API for other kernel code, so it doesn't have to > know anything about skb's or networking. > > IMHO issue number '1' should (and can) be adressed within netlink. Wait > for Patrick's work on this to show up on netdev. We can then think > whether the connctor API (or something similar) can be put on top of it. Fair enough. Let's do it this way. > -- > - Harald Welte http://netfilter.org/ > ============================================================================ > "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early > architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going > on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie -- Evgeniy Polyakov