From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: Generic Netlink HOW-TO based on Jamal's original doc Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:59:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20061110085936.36b9e82f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <45541757.90800@hp.com> <4554201F.5080105@hp.com> <1163169264.5218.7.camel@jzny2> <4554A607.3000800@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, "Randy.Dunlap" , Balbir Singh , Shailabh Nagar , James Morris , tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:51018 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946782AbWKJRBu (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:01:50 -0500 To: Paul Moore In-Reply-To: <4554A607.3000800@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:17:11 -0500 Paul Moore wrote: > jamal wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-11 at 01:45 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > >>James Morris wrote: > >> > >>>>An Introduction To Using Generic Netlink > >>>>=============================================================================== > >>> > >>> > >>>Wow, this is great! > >> > >>Thanks. I consider it an act of penance for all of the evil things I did > >>with Netlink on my first few iterations of NetLabel ;) > > > > > > Hey, theres more than one way to pay for your sins ;-> > > For example: Do you wanna take over maintainance of the doc? ;-> > > There is a sucker born every minute. right? :) > > I'll make you a deal: I'll take over maintainance of the document as long as you > promise to send me your feedback by Monday. Jamal, Were my patches ever merged into your document? > > i.e it would make a lot of sense to finally submit it for inclusion. > > Thanks for the effort. > > I think so too, I'm glad I was able to help out. > > > I havent read it - dont have the time till this weekend. I would like > > to have input as well from the other folks who have opined in the past > > (on CC list - they seemed to have strong opinions of what should be in > > the doc). > > > > This is also timely because this weekend i was going to work on a > > presentation on this stuff for a conference ;-> So i will actually > > have to read what you put together. I will have more comments later when > > i am done reading. > > Okay, I've already made some changes based on other comments in this thread but > I'll refrain from pushing out an updated version until early next week. I'll > also make the next version of the document a patch against net-2.6.20. --- ~Randy