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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:49:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF12842.8080802@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120629.161821.948325645333976311.davem@davemloft.net>

On 06/29/2012 05:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Vincent Sanders<vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:12:37 +0100
>
>> I had hoped you would have at least read the opening list where I
>> outlined the underlying features which explain why none of the
>> existing IPC match the requirements.
> I had hoped that you had read the part we told you last time where
> we explained why multicast and "reliable delivery" are fundamentally
> incompatible attributes.
>
> We are not creating a full address family in the kernel which exists
> for one, and only one, specific and difficult user.

For what it's worth, the company I work for (and a number of other 
companies) currently use an out-of-tree datagram multicast messaging 
protocol family based on AF_UNIX.

If AF_BUS were to be accepted, it would be essentially trivial for us to 
port our existing userspace messaging library to use it instead of our 
current protocol family, and we would almost certainly do so.

I'd love to see AF_BUS go in.

Chris Friesen


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29 16:45 AF_BUS socket address family Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] net: bus: Add " Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] net: bus: Add documentation for AF_BUS Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] net: bus: Add AF_BUS socket and address definitions Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] security: Add Linux Security Modules hook for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09  3:32   ` James Morris
2012-07-09 18:02   ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] security: selinux: Add AF_BUS socket SELinux hooks Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09 18:38   ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] netfilter: Add NFPROTO_BUS hook constant for AF_BUS socket family Vincent Sanders
2012-07-01  2:15   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] scm: allow AF_BUS sockets to send ancillary data Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] net: bus: Add implementation of Bus domain sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] net: bus: Add garbage collector for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02 17:44   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-03 12:11     ` Alban Crequy
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] net: bus: Add the AF_BUS socket address family to KBuild Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] netlink: connector: implement cn_netlink_reply Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] netlink: connector: Add idx and val identifiers for netfilter D-Bus Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus message parsing Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 17:11   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-02 15:43     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-04 17:30       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-05 17:54         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus match rule implementation Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] netfilter: add netfilter D-Bus module Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 18:16 ` AF_BUS socket address family Chris Friesen
2012-06-29 19:33   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-29 18:45 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-06-29 23:22   ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 22:36 ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:12   ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:18     ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:42       ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:50         ` David Miller
2012-06-30  0:09           ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-30 13:12           ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01  0:33             ` David Miller
2012-07-01 14:16               ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01 21:45                 ` David Miller
2012-06-30  0:13         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-06-30 12:52           ` Alan Cox
2012-07-02 14:51             ` Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02  4:49       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-07-05 21:06     ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-06 18:27       ` Chris Friesen
2012-06-30 20:41 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2012-07-02 16:46   ` Alban Crequy
2012-07-05  7:59 ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-05 16:01   ` Daniel Walker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-02 15:18 Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-03 16:52 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-03 17:18   ` Chris Friesen

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