From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.12-rc4-mm[12] - ULOG problem Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:53:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20050519095334.018dd674.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050519000809.2fca25c5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@davemloft.net Return-path: To: James Morris In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org James Morris wrote: > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > We should remove the feature. If there is demonstrated need for multiple > > instances then it should be done by more conventional means - syscall, > > allocation of a device major then use the minor as a selector or whatever. > > I'd suggest removing the connector code completely. > How come? It seems sensible to have library code which consoldates the common netlink setup and teardown stuff and which offers a higher-level messaging API, although connector may be a bit overdesigned for that. The fork connector guys seemed to find it useful?