From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Updated cluster log patch (take 5)
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:42:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090706114217.GA1679@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090620120128.GB22786@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:01:29AM -0400, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > Maye I misremember it, but isn't the connector code strongly deprecated
> > in favour of genetlink?
>
> Use of connector is deprecated, it does not have any advantages over
> genetlink while genetlink provides an optional attributes based
> protocol interface which allows for messaging protocols to be developed
> which can be extended without breaking binary compatibility. It also
> features a userspace library which makes development trivial.
>
>
> I guess nobody will force you but use of genetlink is encouraged.
Jonathan, I think it's really sad that this got pushed into mainline
after the merge window without even replying to this statement of one
of our core networking developers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1244845317.19994.3.camel@hydrogen.msp.redhat.com>
2009-06-13 11:07 ` [dm-devel] Updated cluster log patch (take 5) Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-14 16:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-06-20 12:01 ` Thomas Graf
2009-07-06 11:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-07-06 12:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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