From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:22 +0400 Message-ID: <20070713070321.GA10361@2ka.mipt.ru> 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=koi8-r Cc: Matt Mackall , Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Anderson , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:35414 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933182AbXGMHFF (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:05:05 -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 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