From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Netlink connector Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:06:04 +0400 Message-ID: <20050725070603.GA28023@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20050723125427.GA11177@rama> <20050723091455.GA12015@2ka.mipt.ru> <20050724.191756.105797967.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: Andrew Morton , Harald Welte , netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@redhat.com Return-path: To: James Morris Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris (jmorris@redhat.com) wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > >From: Evgeniy Polyakov > >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 > > > >>Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm > > > >A patch sitting in -mm has zero significance. That is why I'm asking netdev@ people again... > The significance I think is that Andrew is trying to gently encourage some > further progress in the area. > > I recall some netconf discussion about TIPC over Netlink, or more likely a > variation thereof, which may be a better way forward. > > It's cool stuff http://tipc.sourceforge.net/ I read it quite long ago - I'm sure you do not want to use that monster for event bus. It was designed and implemented for heavy intermachine communications, and it is quite hard to setup for userspace <-> kernelspace message bus. > > - James > -- > James Morris > -- Evgeniy Polyakov