From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [Netchannels take19] new netchannel release. Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:28:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20061222082846.GC4397@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20061220151245.GA19335@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061221163625.GC10845@2ka.mipt.ru> <200612220140.33732.hhh@imada.sdu.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:45992 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945980AbWLVI3Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:29:16 -0500 To: Hans Henrik Happe Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200612220140.33732.hhh@imada.sdu.dk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:40:33AM +0100, Hans Henrik Happe (hhh@imada.sdu.dk) wrote: > > Code is in development state, but I would like to hear comments about > > overall design, features, usefullness for the kernel and get feedback on > > kernel side. > > I follow your work with great interest, even though my kernel coding > experience isn't great. When I get the time I would like to actually try it > out and provide some feedback. > > For now I only follow your progress by reading your web page to get the big > picture. I must admit it is not easy to get the overall picture from reading > that, because it is mostly about small details. I think you would get a lot > more enthusiasm from people, if you described your work top-down. Much of the > work is about new interfaces and it would be very helpfull with detailed > descriptions of these. > > I think kevent has arrived to a level of documentation, which makes it > possible to get the bigger picture before digging into the code. Although kevent has documentation, it does not help it, as we can see :) > I know documentation is boring, especially for people who actually put their > ideas into code (some people like to rant about their ideas forever, without > actually showing any results). So don't get me wrong; I like your work, but > if you want more people to get excited about it, I think you need to > communicate it better. I will write some documentation about overall design and interfaces (it is a bit easier than kevent, since there is only one syscall with everyone-likes-it multiplexor inside, and one connector based interface for netfilter (NAT)). > Anyway, keep up the good work! Thank you. > Hans Henrik -- Evgeniy Polyakov