From: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:42:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070712134242.GA1671@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712.032727.07453420.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400
>
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > > --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:31.000000000 +0100
> > > > > +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:50.000000000 +0100
> > > > > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> > > > > #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet routing messages */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT 15 /* Kernel messages to userspace */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_GENERIC 16
> > > > > -/* leave room for NETLINK_DM (DM Events) */
> > > > > +#define NETLINK_DM 17 /* Device Mapper */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT 18 /* SCSI Transports */
> > > > > #define NETLINK_ECRYPTFS 19
> > > >
> > > > Have the net guys checked this?
> > >
> > > No. The support is a derivative of the netlink support in
> > > scsi_transport_iscsi.c.
> >
> > I'm not sure about all net guys, but the first question rised after
> > reading this - why do you want special netlink family and do not want to
> > use interfaces created on top of - like connector and genetlink?
>
> I agree, there is really no reason to not at least use
> genetlink.
ok, I will switch over to using genetlink.
-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com>
2007-07-11 21:27 ` [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 23:37 ` Mike Anderson
2007-07-12 8:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-12 10:27 ` David Miller
2007-07-12 13:42 ` Mike Anderson [this message]
2007-07-12 23:19 ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-12 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 2:00 ` [dm-devel] " Mike Anderson
2007-07-13 20:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-13 7:03 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-13 7:16 ` Kay Sievers
2007-07-12 23:45 ` Mike Anderson
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