From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [NET_SCHED] Traffic Control subsystem Notifier for Kernel Modules Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:24:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20080208.002404.241903230.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1202455182-13379-1-git-send-email-yashpal.dutta@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kim.phillips@freescale.com To: yashpal.dutta@freescale.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55274 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933073AbYBHIXd (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:23:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1202455182-13379-1-git-send-email-yashpal.dutta@freescale.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Yashpal Dutta Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:49:42 +0530 > The patch adds raw notifiers in Traffic Control subsystem for communicating > Queue Disciplines and Classifiers added by user via TC application. > Interested kernel modules will have to register to the TC subsystem > to be able to get new QDisc notifys asynchronously. > > Signed-off-by: Yashpal Dutta > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips You can simply listen on the appropriate netlink socket for these events already. There is no reason I can see to provide them over a different framework like this.