From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:19:12 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <41537610.1040403@eurodev.net> References: <1095633569.1047.107.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040919231734.GA10124@gondor.apana.org.au> <1095647944.1046.206.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040920025802.GA11567@gondor.apana.org.au> <1095683660.1047.254.camel@jzny.localdomain> <414F1E12.6010808@eurodev.net> <20040922000503.GA13218@gondor.apana.org.au> <4150E7E5.2000001@eurodev.net> <20040922045239.GA19573@gondor.apana.org.au> <1095854920.1047.64.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040923120707.GB32624@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jamal , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20040923120707.GB32624@gondor.apana.org.au> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Herbert, Herbert Xu wrote: >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:08:40AM -0400, jamal wrote: > > >>Since netlink is being used for a lot of things now, it may be time to >>obsolete those assumptions. >> >> > >I'm not against changes. But so far I haven't seen anything concrete >about what these new things are yet :) > > Nothing mysterious :), people are willing to put more and more things in kernel space, so I wanted to evaluate netlink sockets as a method to pass information from kernel to user space and vice-versa. I think that, instead of putting all the things in kernel space, a kernel component can provide an API to user space programs to interact with them, so I wanted to evaluate them to figure out what they could do and what they could't do at this moment. I can also focus this to component replication. regards, Pablo