From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934372AbXGLXqS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:46:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758738AbXGLXp7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:45:59 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:57288 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757391AbXGLXp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:45:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:45:42 -0700 From: Mike Anderson To: Matt Mackall Cc: Andrew Morton , Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Message-ID: <20070712234542.GD4768@us.ibm.com> References: <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070711142712.e646995b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:27:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100 > > Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > > > > From: Mike Anderson > > > > > > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton support to the Makefile, and the dm > > > directory. > > > > > > ... > > > > > > +config DM_NETLINK > > > + bool "DM netlink events (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > > + depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL > > > + ---help--- > > > + Generate netlink events for DM events. > > > > Need a dependency on NET there? > > It's really sad to make DM dependent on the network layer. It wouldn't be all of dm. Only the netlink based event interface would be dependent. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com