From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/5] Network Drop Monitor: Add netlink protocol identifer
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:04:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090303190457.GA8006@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303190054.GI1480@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:00:54PM -0500, Neil Horman (nhorman@tuxdriver.com) wrote:
> Because this is its own protocol. I could have used NETLINK_GENERIC I suppose,
> but this is a feature that, if used is going to be commonly built into the
> kernel, I see no need to add an additional step of making userspace search for a
> protocol registered to NETLINK_GENERIC when we dont need to. In other words,
> why not define my own protocol?
genetlink is alwats built into the kernel, there are access libraries
helpers and there is really no userspace overhead. It was really
specially designed for this kind of the tasks to eliminate netlink
internal structure access and provide simple high-level interface.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 17:00 [Patch 1/5] Network Drop Monitor: Add netlink protocol identifer Neil Horman
2009-03-03 18:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-03-03 19:00 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-03 19:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-03-03 19:41 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-03 22:17 ` David Miller
2009-03-04 15:39 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-11 19:46 ` Neil Horman
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