Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;->

cheers,
jamal

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:44, jamal wrote:
> To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that
> it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between
> kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact that he leveraged netlink
> instead of inventing things is a bonus. Having said that i have not
> seriously scrutinized the code - and i think the idea of this new thing
> hes tossing around called CBUS maybe pushing it.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:34, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi
> > >> Salim,
> > >> almost all were successfully resolved.
> > >
> > >Please do not construe my involvement in these threads as endorsement
> > >for this system.
> > 
> > Sure.
> > I remember you are against it :).
> > 
> > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thing is
> > >meant to solve.
> > 
> > Hmm, what else can I add to my words?
> > May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject changes
> > in kobject_uevent.c for example...
> > Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_send().
> > 
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