From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:22 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713070321.GA10361@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712163115.ee686f8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:31:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> > > 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".
On my machine device mapper (lvm, raid) does not work without sockets,
(maybe not dm, but hotplug, which creates nodes, or configuration)
so it already depends on it. Hotplug depends on networking.
You missed the day when everyone started to depend on networking :)
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 7:05 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
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 [this message]
2007-07-13 7:16 ` Kay Sievers
2007-07-12 23:45 ` Mike Anderson
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