From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:00:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20070713020059.GA5402@us.ibm.com> References: <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070711142712.e646995b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> <20070712163115.ee686f8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matt Mackall , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon To: device-mapper development Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:40705 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753973AbXGMCBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:01:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712163115.ee686f8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:19:20 -0500 > 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. > > > > Yes, it would be somewhat sad. However one can presumably continue to use > DM, just without "DM netlink events". > Yes, if you deselect you just do not receive the events through netlink. > But that probably means that one will not be able to use the standard DM > admin tools without networking. Maybe there will remain alternative but > cruder ways to get things done? No, all admin tools and interfaces function as they do today. The dm-netlink patch series only contains 9 deletions (actual just one true deletion of existing kernel code the others are due to break up of the patch into compilable chunks). The intent was not to break users or force migration. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com