From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:57:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20070829085709.8deaaa4e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20070828141318.GC5869@duck.suse.cz> <20070828211335.37fce4c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070829122647.GB7814@duck.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070829122647.GB7814@duck.suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Balbir Singh , "Serge E. Hallyn" , "Eric W. Biederman" , containers@lists.osdl.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:26:47 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 28-08-07 21:13:35, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:13:18 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm sending rediffed patch implementing sending of quota messages via netlink > > > interface (some rationale in patch description). I've already posted it to > > > LKML some time ago and there were no objections, so I guess it's fine to put > > > it to -mm. Andrew, would you be so kind? Thanks. > > > Userspace deamon reading the messages from the kernel and sending them to > > > dbus and/or user console is also written (it's part of quota-tools). The > > > only remaining problem is there are a few changes needed to libnl needed for > > > the userspace daemon. They were basically acked by the maintainer but it > > > seems he has not merged the patches yet. So this will take a bit more time. > > > > > > > So it's a new kernel->userspace interface. > > > > But we have no description of the interface :( > Oops, forgotten about it. I'll write one. Do we have some standard place > where to document such interfaces? I could create some file in > Documentation/filesystems/ but that seems a bit superfluous... It looks like other quota documentation is in Documentation/filesystems/, and that seems reasonable to me for the other quota docs & this one. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***