From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@bigfootnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using netlink for intra-kernel requests?
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:33:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpi8mfur.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260308546.29528.27.camel@jdl-desktop> (Jon Loeliger's message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:42:26 -0600")
Jon Loeliger <jdl@bigfootnetworks.com> writes:
>
> I tried to read through some of the similar routing bits, but
> even they confess that they "should use netlink", but then doesn't.
That was the great plan at some point, but it never
happened.
>
> I feel like I am missing or don't know where to find the
> documentation for the intra-kernel netlink messaging.
I don't think the kernel uses intra kernel netlink normally,
just tends to call functions directly. That's more efficient
anyways.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 13:33 UTC|newest]
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2009-12-08 21:42 Using netlink for intra-kernel requests? Jon Loeliger
2009-12-09 13:33 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-12-09 16:41 ` Jon Loeliger
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