From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] [NETLINK]: Dont set socket error for failed event notifications
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:09:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DB765B.4020500@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809205440.025848027@postel.suug.ch>
Thomas Graf wrote:
> Setting a socket error on all sockets subscribed to a group
> if an event notificiation of said group fails due to memory
> pressure only confuses applications and is of no use.
>
> This patch removes it all together.
I disagree with this patch, how else are applications supposed
to know when they missed an update and are not in sync anymore?
I actually have a half-finished patch to add this in some spots
where its missing (and uses better error codes).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 20:48 [PATCHSET]: Clean up netlink NLM_F_ECHO and rtnl event notifications Thomas Graf
2006-08-08 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] [NETLINK]: Handle NLM_F_ECHO in netlink_rcv_skb() Thomas Graf
2006-08-10 15:51 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-10 19:02 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-10 20:32 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-10 21:18 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-11 15:35 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-11 21:47 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-12 11:03 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-12 11:19 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-13 13:45 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-12 3:05 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-12 11:05 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-08 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] [RTNETLINK]: Use rtnl_multicast()/rtnl_unicast() Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 21:00 ` [RESEND " Thomas Graf
2006-08-08 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] [NETLINK]: Dont set socket error for failed event notifications Thomas Graf
2006-08-10 18:09 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-08-10 19:04 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-10 19:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-08-10 19:23 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-11 6:02 ` David Miller
2006-08-11 10:38 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-11 10:42 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] [RTNETLINK]: Unexport global rtnl sock Thomas Graf
2006-08-10 4:16 ` [PATCHSET]: Clean up netlink NLM_F_ECHO and rtnl event notifications David Miller
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