From: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Netlink and user-space buffer pointers
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:05:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44466DE1.4080409@emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060419092645.29cb0420@localhost.localdomain>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:57:25 -0400
> James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> To take netlink to where we want to use it within the SCSI subsystem (as
>> the mechanism of choice to replace ioctls), we're going to need to pass
>> user-space buffer pointers.
>
> This changes the design of netlink. It is desired that netlink
> can be done remotely over the network as well as queueing.
> The current design is message based, not RPC based. By including a
> user-space pointer, you are making the message dependent on the
> context as it is process.
>
> Please rethink your design.
I assume that the message receiver has some way to determine where the
message originated (via the sk_buff), and thus could reject it if it
didn't meet the right criteria. True ? You just have to be cognizant
that it is usable from a remote entity - which is a very good thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-19 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20060418160121.GA2707@us.ibm.com>
2006-04-19 12:57 ` [RFC] Netlink and user-space buffer pointers James Smart
2006-04-19 16:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-19 17:08 ` James Smart
2006-04-19 17:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-19 16:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-19 17:05 ` James Smart [this message]
2006-04-19 21:32 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 14:33 ` James Smart
2006-04-20 17:45 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 17:52 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 17:58 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 20:03 ` James Smart
2006-04-20 20:35 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 20:40 ` Mike Christie
2006-04-20 23:44 ` Andrew Vasquez
2006-04-20 20:18 ` Douglas Gilbert
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