Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

Mike Anderson
2007-07-12T13:43:10Z

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400
>
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > > --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:31.000000000 +0100
> > > > > +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:50.000000000 +0100
> > > > > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> > > > > #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet routing messages */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT 15 /* Kernel messages to userspace */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_GENERIC 16
> > > > > -/* leave room for NETLINK_DM (DM Events) */
> > > > > +#define NETLINK_DM 17 /* Device Mapper */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT 18 /* SCSI Transports */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_ECRYPTFS 19
> > > >
> > > > Have the net guys checked this?
> > >
> > > No. The support is a derivative of the netlink support in
> > > scsi_transport_iscsi.c.
> >
> > I'm not sure about all net guys, but the first question rised after
> > reading this - why do you want special netlink family and do not want to
> > use interfaces created on top of - like connector and genetlink?
>
> I agree, there is really no reason to not at least use
> genetlink.

ok, I will switch over to using genetlink.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com