From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] networking/fanotify: declare fanotify socket numbers Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:46:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20090911204602.GA19371@shareable.org> References: <20090911052558.32359.18075.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20090911.114620.260824240.davem@davemloft.net> <1252697613.2305.38.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan@linux.intel.com, hch@infradead.org To: Eric Paris Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1252697613.2305.38.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Eric Paris wrote: > > I would really prefer if you worked on eliminating the problem that > > prevents you from using netlink instead. > > I'm not really sure if I can, although I'd love to hear input from > someone who knows the netlink code on how I can make it do what I need. > I'm really not duplicating much other than the NLMSG_OK and NLMSG_NEXT > macros. My code doesn't even use skbs and I'm not savy enough to really > know how I could. I'm more than willing to work on it if someone can > point me to how it might work. Let's turn the question around. Since you're doing lots of non-sockety things, and can't tolerate dropped packets - why isn't it a character device? What's the reason for using a socket at all? (I'm reminded of /dev/poll, /dev/epoll and /dev/inotify :-) -- Jamie