From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:25:22 +0400 Message-ID: <1112700322.28858.42.camel@uganda> References: <1112686480.28858.17.camel@uganda> <1112697888.1089.44.camel@jzny.localdomain> <1112698800.1088.50.camel@jzny.localdomain> Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sSnCz6Q18Ygv+8vLJ7Uc" Cc: Herbert Xu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev , "David S. Miller" , James Morris , rml@novell.com, Greg KH , Andrew Morton Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1112698800.1088.50.camel@jzny.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-sSnCz6Q18Ygv+8vLJ7Uc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 07:00 -0400, jamal wrote: > and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;-> In the tree :) Documentation/connector/connector.txt - some notes, API. Documentation/connector/cn_test.c - kernel example. Uses cn_netlink_send(), notification feature. I will send today a pathc that adds in-source documentation bits with some code cleanups. > cheers, > jamal >=20 > 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. > >=20 > > cheers, > > jamal > >=20 > > 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: > > > >>=20 > > > >> 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 endorsemen= t > > > >for this system. > > >=20 > > > Sure. > > > I remember you are against it :). > > >=20 > > > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thin= g is > > > >meant to solve. > > >=20 > > > Hmm, what else can I add to my words? > > > May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject chan= ges > > > in kobject_uevent.c for example... > > > Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_s= end(). > > >=20 > > > >--=20 > > > >Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ > > > >Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} > > > >Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > > > >PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski --=-sSnCz6Q18Ygv+8vLJ7Uc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCUnWiIKTPhE+8wY0RAlXXAJ9cqMiWKTv+jyUGIgqYjppnwYvvlACfYXx7 uJSA7Zm+fMplyqvjC2bt38w= =f8I/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sSnCz6Q18Ygv+8vLJ7Uc--