From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keiichi KII Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:14:50 +0900 Message-ID: <462DBC7A.4010600@bx.jp.nec.com> References: <462605DC.2080804@bx.jp.nec.com> <462609D1.50300@bx.jp.nec.com> <20070419210813.a599c54f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46288D11.4000801@bx.jp.nec.com> <20070420111526.01ad7f4c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070420182109.GR11115@waste.org> <20070420120036.2a96cf8d@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:51990 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754461AbXDXIPo (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:15:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070420120036.2a96cf8d@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org >> We don't really have anything that corresponds to netpoll's >> connections at higher levels. >> >> I'm tempted to say we should make this work more like the dummy >> network device. ie: >> >> modprobe netconsole -o netcon1 [params] >> modprobe netconsole -o netcon2 [params] > > The configuration of netconsole's looks like the configuration of routes. > Granted you probably have more routes than netconsoles, but the interface > issues are similar. Netlink with a small application wouldn't be nice. > And having /proc/net/netconsole (read-only) would be good for the netlink > impaired. Do you say that we had better use procfs instead of sysfs to show the configurations of netconsole? If so, I have a question. I thought that "procfs use things related to process as far as possible". Is it no problem to use procfs here? -- Keiichi KII NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center E-mail: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com