From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com, jhs@mojatatu.com,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
amritha.nambiar@intel.com, sdf@google.com, horms@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 5/9] genetlink: implement release callback and free sk_user_data there
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:08:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231122090820.3b139890@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZV3KCF7Q2fwZyzg4@nanopsycho>
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:29:44 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >If you're doing it centrally, please put the state as a new field in
> >the netlink socket. sk_user_data is for the user.
>
> I planned to use sk_user_data. What do you mean it is for the user?
> I see it is already used for similar usecase by connector for example:
I'm pretty sure I complained when it was being added. Long story.
AFAIU user as in if the socket is opened by a kernel module, the kernel
module is the user. There's no need to use this field for the
implementation since the implementation can simply extend its
own structure to add a properly typed field.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-22 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-20 8:46 [patch net-next v3 0/9] devlink: introduce notifications filtering Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 1/9] devlink: use devl_is_registered() helper instead xa_get_mark() Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 2/9] devlink: introduce __devl_is_registered() helper and use it instead of xa_get_mark() Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 3/9] devlink: send notifications only if there are listeners Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 4/9] devlink: introduce a helper for netlink multicast send Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 5/9] genetlink: implement release callback and free sk_user_data there Jiri Pirko
2023-11-21 2:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 7:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-21 13:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-21 17:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-22 9:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-22 17:08 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-11-22 18:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-22 19:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-23 6:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-23 10:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-23 16:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-23 16:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 6/9] netlink: introduce typedef for filter function Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 7/9] genetlink: introduce helpers to do filtered multicast Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 8/9] devlink: add a command to set notification filter and use it for multicasts Jiri Pirko
2023-11-21 2:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 7:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-11-20 8:46 ` [patch net-next v3 9/9] devlink: extend multicast filtering by port index Jiri Pirko
2023-11-21 2:29 ` [patch net-next v3 0/9] devlink: introduce notifications filtering Jakub Kicinski
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