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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: goemon@anime.net
Cc: chrisc@shad0w.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CDP handler for linux
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:46:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010814.154609.99205977.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108141429040.31529-100000@anime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108142137300.3810-100000@monolith.shad0w.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108141429040.31529-100000@anime.net>

   From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
   Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:32:40 -0700 (PDT)

   On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Chris Crowther wrote:
   > either - it just sits there, collecting and sending information.  The only
   > thing you would really need in userspace, would be tools to read
   > information from the cdp handler if you wanted to do more than just look
   > at the neighbor summary.  I can't see any real advantages of running it as
   > a daemon as opposed to a kernel component.
   
   Except that as userspace daemon if cdpd goes splat the kernel generally
   doesnt go splat either.
   
I really think this should be in userspace too.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-14 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-14 18:47 [PATCH] CDP handler for linux Chris Crowther
2001-08-14 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-14 19:56   ` Chris Crowther
2001-08-14 20:59     ` Bjoern A. Zeeb
2001-08-14 20:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-14 20:54   ` Chris Crowther
2001-08-14 20:59     ` Alan Cox
2001-08-15  5:48       ` David Luyer
2001-08-14 21:07     ` Bjoern A. Zeeb
2001-08-14 21:32     ` Dan Hollis
2001-08-14 22:46       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-08-15  9:13         ` Chris Crowther
2001-08-15  9:23           ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  9:32             ` Chris Crowther
2001-08-14 20:19 ` Dan Hollis
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108141934130.3283-100000@monolith.shad0w.or g.uk>
2001-08-14 23:01 ` Lincoln Dale
2001-08-15 16:14   ` Chris Crowther

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