From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:24:56 +0200 Message-ID: <1180272296.3604.64.camel@johannes.berg> References: <84po8XY4.1179999810.5490870.samuel@sortiz.org> <1180024477.18003.11.camel@johannes.berg> <20070525221802.GO521@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-wgfsj2vv07MYHxKYri0B" Cc: Samuel Ortiz , giometti@enneenne.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Graf Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:59296 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752515AbXE0N1Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 09:27:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070525221802.GO521@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-wgfsj2vv07MYHxKYri0B Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 00:18 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > This area is still work in progress but the basic idea is that > like in kernel context, the application defines its set of > commands and assigns message parsers for each command.=20 Ok, but why? For when we get asynchronous events from the kernel? > For now, > the message parser is linked into the cache operations which > means that you have to "update" a cache in order to use this > feature.=20 What's the cache good for to start with? My current userland tool just send a message and expects back a response. Obviously that's broken once we have events too, is that when the message parsers come in? johannes --=-wgfsj2vv07MYHxKYri0B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGWYan/ETPhpq3jKURAk3iAJ9q9xyOh39T7JjBAB7TkdDHmi5iXACgiW+I CzN14IVjLuWNq2RGY5Vz85M= =Z/3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wgfsj2vv07MYHxKYri0B--