Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] dm-mp netlink events

[Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> This patch series creates a dm-mp hardware handler that sends netlink
> messages when a hardware handlers error function is called. The skb
> mempool in this patch is derived / copied from
> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c.
> 
> Currently I have created this support in a hardware handler to reduce the
> impact on other code, but this code could easily be moved to
> dm-mpath.c::do_end_io or higher if desired. The events will also contain
> better information once the scsi error mapping patches are done.
> 
> This patch series contains:
> 	1 A hardware handler that sends events over netlink (dm-evt)
> 	2 A sample user space program to receive / display events.
> 	  (dm_evtd)
> 
Would uevents work instead of yet another Netlink wire ?
The multipath daemon already listens for uevents ...

Regards,
cvaroqui