From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:45:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20070712234542.GD4768@us.ibm.com> References: <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070711142712.e646995b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , dm-devel@redhat.com, Alasdair G Kergon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Mackall Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:27:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100 > > Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > > > > From: Mike Anderson > > > > > > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton support to the Makefile, and the dm > > > directory. > > > > > > ... > > > > > > +config DM_NETLINK > > > + bool "DM netlink events (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > > + depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL > > > + ---help--- > > > + Generate netlink events for DM events. > > > > Need a dependency on NET there? > > It's really sad to make DM dependent on the network layer. It wouldn't be all of dm. Only the netlink based event interface would be dependent. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com