From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48528EED.7090307@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4845fc0806130717v2e892707tee1e401b39dbab81@mail.gmail.com>
Julius Volz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> wrote:
>> I don't really have any concrete ideas about what a better
>> interface would look like. But I am more than happy to hash our ideas.
>
> Good! At the moment I'm looking at various netlink docs and figuring
> out how things generally work. I think netlink probably adds a lot of
> complexity over the previous sockopt interface, but I hope it's worth
> it.
>
> As for compatibility and extensibility, how is that best achieved with
> netlink? I've seen some examples copy whole C structs into netlink
> datagrams, but that is obviously what we don't want anymore. So the
> way to go seems to be to transfer each struct field as a separate
> netlink attribute, right?
Yes. You can also group those which belong together logically
in nested attributes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-13 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 17:11 [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 01/26] IPVS: Add CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 option for IPv6 support Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 02/26] IPVS: Change IPVS data structures to support IPv6 addresses Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <f4845fc0806111041u2a9a197fseefe300ffbbda3c3@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <485010E9.6000506@trash.net>
2008-06-11 18:08 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 1:54 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-12 9:47 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 03/26] IPVS: Use new address family fields in IPVS structs Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 04/26] IPVS: Add address family specific debugging macros Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 05/26] IPVS: Use new " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 06/26] IPVS: Add IPv6-specific function pointers to struct ip_vs_protocol Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 07/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to AH protocol handler Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 08/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to ESP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 09/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to TCP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 10/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to UDP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 11/26] IPVS: Add supports_ipv6 flag to schedulers Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 12/26] IPVS: Extend proto handler debug functions to handle IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 13/26] IPVS: Turn off FTP application helper for IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 14/26] IPVS: Extend xmit routing cache to support IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 15/26] IPVS: Modify IP_VS_XMIT() " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 16/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 xmit forwarding functions Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12 1:55 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 17/26] IPVS: Add connection hashing function for IPv6 entries Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 18/26] IPVS: Add functions for getting/creating IPv6 connections Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12 1:55 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 19/26] IPVS: Add scheduling functions for " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 20/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 Netfilter hooks and add/modify support functions Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12 1:55 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 21/26] IPVS: Make proc/net files output IPv6 entries correctly Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 22/26] IPVS: Add function to find out if IPv6 address is local Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 23/26] IPVS: Add hash functions for IPv6 services and real servers Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 24/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 support to userspace interface Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12 1:55 ` Brian Haley
2008-06-12 9:46 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 25/26] IPVS: Add support for IPv6 entry output in procfs files Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 26/26] IPVS: Add some blame/credits for IPv6 version Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:23 ` [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 18:23 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 18:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:05 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 19:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:29 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 19:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:53 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 20:14 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 20:55 ` Vince Busam
2008-06-11 21:30 ` Ben Greear
2008-06-11 22:26 ` Vince Busam
2008-06-12 1:45 ` Simon Horman
2008-06-12 13:31 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 13:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-12 15:34 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 15:41 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 15:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-12 19:33 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-13 6:26 ` Simon Horman
2008-06-13 14:17 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-13 15:14 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-16 0:14 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-16 11:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-16 12:13 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-16 23:19 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-17 11:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 17:18 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-17 20:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 22:47 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18 8:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:17 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18 14:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:27 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18 14:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:36 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-30 12:01 ` Julius Volz
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