From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] IPVS: Add Generic Netlink configuration interface Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:34:05 +1000 Message-ID: <20080722003403.GC9041@verge.net.au> References: <1216645375-20410-1-git-send-email-juliusv@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, davem@davemloft.net, tgraf@suug.ch, vbusam@google.com To: Julius Volz Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1216645375-20410-1-git-send-email-juliusv@google.com> Sender: lvs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:02:53PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote: > This is the second version of the Generic Netlink interface for > IPVS. I integrated some comments from Thomas Graf, Patrick McHardy and > Yoshifuji Hideaki and changed a few things myself. The interface should > now follow existing Netlink conventions more closely and has been > tested without problems. > > The two patches add a Generic Netlink interface to IPVS while keeping > the old get/setsockopt interface for userspace backwards compatibility. > The motivation for this is to have a more extensible interface for > future changes, such as the planned IPv6 support. ipvsadm is currently > being extended to support the new interface and features. I'm not an expert on netlink, but these patches are looking good to me. Is the user-space portion available somewhere? > The ip_vs.h header change depends on this patch I sent previously: > "IPVS: Move userspace definitions to include/linux/ip_vs.h" > (this one looked good to Horms, can it go in?) Yes, it can. I'll repost it with an Ack. -- Horms