From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] [IPv6] address: Convert address notification to use rtnl_notify() Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:11:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1155733870.5122.137.camel@jzny2> References: <20060815122300.GV14627@postel.suug.ch> <20060816105856.GW14627@postel.suug.ch> <20060816111240.GA28846@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060816113950.GA29003@gondor.apana.org.au> <1155729864.5122.95.camel@jzny2> <20060816120808.GA14627@postel.suug.ch> <1155731791.5122.115.camel@jzny2> <20060816130437.GC16917@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Graf , Herbert Xu , hasso@estpak.ee, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:19947 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbWHPNLN (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:11:13 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx02.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GDLAy-0005mq-9T for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:11:16 -0400 To: Alexey Kuznetsov In-Reply-To: <20060816130437.GC16917@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-16-08 at 17:04 +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > Hello! > > > In one conversation with Alexey he told me there was some inspiration > > from pfkey in the semantics of it i.e processid. > > Inspiration, but not a copy. :-) Oh, absolutely. Netlink is way superior. I should have said perspiration instead of inspiration;-> Calling inspiration was being polite - it is as being polite as saying i was being economical with the truth[1] ;-> > Unlike pfkeyv2 it uses addressing usual for networking i.e. > struct sockaddr_nl. I think this needs to be captured somewhere. I dont know who is maintaining the man pages these days. cheers, jamal [1] A term i learnt from some British guy. They have ways with words those Brits.