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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:09:15 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:17:28 +0000 Chuck Lever III wrote:
> >> I don't think it does, necessarily. But neither does it seem
> >> to add any value (for this use case). <shrug>  
> > 
> > Our default is to go for generic netlink, it's where we invest most time
> > in terms of infrastructure.  
> 
> v2 of the series used generic netlink for the downcall piece.
> I can convert back to using generic netlink for v4 of the
> series.

Would you be able to write the spec for it? I'm happy to help with that
as I mentioned. Perhaps you have the user space already hand-written
here but in case the mechanism/family gets reused it'd be sad if people
had to hand write bindings for other programming languages.